Robert Corty
Instructor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Corty is an Instructor in Rheumatology at Vanderbilt Health with 11 years of clinical and research experience focused on the genetics of immune-mediated disease. He holds an MD and a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from UNC Chapel Hill and a BA in Chemical and Physical Biology from Harvard, blending rigorous bench-to-bedside training with computational expertise. His work centers on germline genetics and autoimmunity, pairing clinical rheumatology with data-driven approaches to uncover patient-specific disease mechanisms. As a former resident and rheumatology fellow at Vanderbilt, he brings practical patient care insight to translational research and teaching. Based in Nashville, he is particularly interested in how computational immunology can inform precision therapies for autoimmune disorders. Colleagues know him for connecting complex genomic analyses to clinically actionable hypotheses that improve diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, chemical and physical biology, Bachelor's degree, chemical and physical biology at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Medicine - MD, Doctor of Medicine - MD at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (144)
parser10
data-transformation10
r10
genetic10
variance10
dplyr10
data-visualisation10
grammar10
sublime-text9
nmf9
python9
data-manipulation9
ggplot9
polars9
genomics9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rcorty/vqtl2
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
mean-variance qtl mapping based on the qtl2 framework
Contributions:73 commits, 1 PR, 52 pushes in 1 month
mappingqtlqt5variance
rcorty/qtl_mapping_with_BVH_supporting_files
Feb 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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