Division of Biology and Medicine
Warren Alpert Physician-Scientist MD/PhD and Advanced Training Program

Alexandra Wong
Computational Molecular Biology Graduate Program
Biography
Alex Wong is a 4th year MD-PhD candidate in the Computational Biology program in Lorin Crawford's lab at Brown University. Alex's research focuses on building more interpretable machine learning models for cancer drug combination prediction to enable biomarker and target discovery. Her research interests broadly include oncology, machine learning, and multi-omics.
Publications
- The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network. Integrated genomic characterization of oesophageal carcinoma. Nature 2017, 541(7636):169-175.
- Champer M, Wong AM, Champer J, Brito IL, Messer PW, Hou JY, Wright JD. The role of the vaginal microbiome in gynaecological cancer. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2017, doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.14631