Alexander Baras
Associate Professor Of Pathology, Urology, And Oncology At Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Baras is an associate professor at Johns Hopkins with 11 years of experience at the intersection of pathology, urology, and oncology, translating high-throughput molecular and computational methods into clinically actionable diagnostics and therapeutics. Trained as an MD-PhD with strong computational skills, he combines bedside insight and systems-level molecular analysis to identify and investigate clinically relevant questions efficiently. His work emphasizes precision medicine—developing global analytic methodologies for biomolecules that accelerate discovery in disease pathogenesis and therapeutic development. Based in Baltimore, he brings a rare blend of rigorous clinical training, deep molecular expertise, and computational fluency that drives translational research from data to patient impact.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medicine at University of Virginia School of MedicineBachelor's Degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Magna Cum Laude at Georgetown UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Pathology/Experimental Pathology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Pathology/Experimental Pathology at University of Virginia
Github Skills (28)
python10
cancer-genomics10
machine-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-learning10
visualization9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
bioinformatics9
immunology9
science9
genomics9
rna-seq9
sequencing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
BarasLab/miRge
Feb 2015 - Oct 2017
miRge is a logical, ultrafast, small RNA-seq solution to process samples in a highly multiplexed fashion, resulting in dramatically decreased computational requirements when processing sets of samples in a single run.
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 7 months
rna-seq
BarasLab/SpatialUMAP
May 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
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