Diversity in Life Sciences

Dennis Montoya is a computational biologist currently serving as an Assistant Researcher at the UC Davis School of Medicine. His research focuses on developing methods to parse the tissue cellular microenvironment through analysis of genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic data. He has developed a suite of computational tools for the estimation of cellular frequency or immune activation pathways from whole tissue functional genomic data. His computational tools have been used in many settings, in particular for biomarker discovery from observational research studies. He is currently focusing on novel diagnostics and therapies for ovarian cancer