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Marina Sirota, PhD

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUniversity of California San Francisco
DepartmentPediatrics
Address550 16th Street
San Francisco CA 94158
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    Stanford UniversityB.S.2006Biomedical Computation
    Stanford UniversityM.S.2006Biomedical Informatics
    Stanford UniversityPh.D.2010Biomedical Informatics

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    Marina is currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Computational Health Sciences at UCSF. Prior to that she was the Lead Research Scientist in the Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford University and has worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Pfizer where she focused on developing Precision Medicine strategies in drug discovery. She completed her PhD in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University, where her graduate work focused on predicting drug-disease relationships based on gene expression to identify novel therapeutic indications for known drugs. Her research interests lie in developing computational integrative methods and applying these approaches in the context of disease diagnostics and therapeutics. Her primary focus is on leveraging and integrating different types of omics and clinical data to better understand the role of the immune system in disease.


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    ApoE Genotype-Directed Drug Repositioning and Combination Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease
    NIH/NIA R01AG057683Sep 15, 2017 - May 31, 2022
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    A Precision Medicine Approach to Detect Dysbiosis and Immune Activation in Preterm Labor
    Burroughs Wellcome Fund Jul 1, 2017 - Jul 1, 2020
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Discovery of novel environmental chemicals in a diverse population of maternal-infant pairs
    NIH/NIEHS R01ES027051Sep 30, 2016 - Aug 31, 2021
    Role: Co-Investigator
    Integrative Analysis of Genomic, Epigenomic and Phenotypic Data for Disease Stratification of Endometriosis
    NIH/NICHD R01HD089511Sep 26, 2016 - Apr 30, 2021
    Role: Co-Investigator
    Resource-based Center for the Advancement of Precision Medicine in Rheumatology
    NIH/NIAMS P30AR070155Sep 21, 2016 - Aug 31, 2021
    Role: Co-Investigator, Bioinformatics Core Director
    Elucidating the Role of the Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Preterm Birth Using Integrative Computational Approaches
    NIH K01LM012381Aug 1, 2016 - Jul 31, 2019
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Towards an Integrated Data Repository for Preterm Birth
    March of Dimes 60982053-50185
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator

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    1. Padula AM, Huang H, Baer RJ, August LM, Jankowska MM, Jellife-Pawlowski LL, Sirota M, Woodruff TJ. Environmental pollution and social factors as contributors to preterm birth in Fresno County. Environ Health. 2018 Aug 29; 17(1):70. PMID: 30157858.
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    2. Huang H, Woodruff TJ, Baer RJ, Bangia K, August LM, Jellife-Palowski LL, Padula AM, Sirota M. Investigation of association between environmental and socioeconomic factors and preterm birth in California. Environ Int. 2018 Jul 27. PMID: 30075861.
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    3. Pineda S, Sirota M. Determining Significance in the New Era for p-Values. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2018 Jul 26. PMID: 30052572.
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    4. Wang A, Gerona RR, Schwartz JM, Lin T, Sirota M, Morello-Frosch R, Woodruff TJ. A Suspect Screening Method for Characterizing Multiple Chemical Exposures among a Demographically Diverse Population of Pregnant Women in San Francisco. Environ Health Perspect. 2018 07; 126(7):077009. PMID: 30044231.
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    5. Vora B, Wang A, Kosti I, Huang H, Paranjpe I, Woodruff TJ, MacKenzie T, Sirota M. Meta-Analysis of Maternal and Fetal Transcriptomic Data Elucidates the Role of Adaptive and Innate Immunity in Preterm Birth. Front Immunol. 2018; 9:993. PMID: 29867970.
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    6. Kosti I, Sirota M. Electronic Medical Records Enable Precision Medicine Approaches for Celiac Disease. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2018 May 08. PMID: 29746345.
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    7. Huang H, Wang A, Morello-Frosch R, Lam J, Sirota M, Padula A, Woodruff TJ. Cumulative Risk and Impact Modeling on Environmental Chemical and Social Stressors. Curr Environ Health Rep. 2018 Mar; 5(1):88-99. PMID: 29441463.
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    8. Gianfrancesco MA, Schmajuk G, Haserodt S, Trupin L, Izadi Z, Jafri K, Shiboski S, Sirota M, Dudley RA, Yazdany J. Correction to: Hydroxychloroquine dosing in immune-mediated diseases: implications for patient safety. Rheumatol Int. 2018 02; 38(2):319. PMID: 29273937.
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    9. Pineda S, Sigdel TK, Chen J, Jackson AM, Sirota M, Sarwal MM. Corrigendum: Novel Non-Histocompatibility Antigen Mismatched Variants Improve the Ability to Predict Antibody-Mediated Rejection Risk in Kidney Transplant. Front Immunol. 2018; 9:107. PMID: 29406538.
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    10. Kido T, Sikora-Wohlfeld W, Kawashima M, Kikuchi S, Kamatani N, Patwardhan A, Chen R, Sirota M, Kodama K, Hadley D, Butte AJ. Are minor alleles more likely to be risk alleles? BMC Med Genomics. 2018 Jan 19; 11(1):3. PMID: 29351777.
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    11. Rappoport N, Toung J, Hadley D, Wong RJ, Fujioka K, Reuter J, Abbott CW, Oh S, Hu D, Eng C, Huntsman S, Bodian DL, Niederhuber JE, Hong X, Zhang G, Sikora-Wohfeld W, Gignoux CR, Wang H, Oehlert J, Jelliffe-Pawlowski LL, Gould JB, Darmstadt GL, Wang X, Bustamante CD, Snyder MP, Ziv E, Patsopoulos NA, Muglia LJ, Burchard E, Shaw GM, O'Brodovich HM, Stevenson DK, Butte AJ, Sirota M. A genome-wide association study identifies only two ancestry specific variants associated with spontaneous preterm birth. Sci Rep. 2018 Jan 09; 8(1):226. PMID: 29317701.
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    12. Van Blarcom T, Lindquist K, Melton Z, Cheung WL, Wagstrom C, McDonough D, Valle Oseguera C, Ding S, Rossi A, Potluri S, Sundar P, Pitts S, Sirota M, Galindo Casas M, Yan Y, Jones J, Roe-Zurz Z, Srivatsa Srinivasan S, Zhai W, Pons J, Rajpal A, Chaparro-Riggers J. Productive common light chain libraries yield diverse panels of high affinity bispecific antibodies. MAbs. 2018 Feb/Mar; 10(2):256-268. PMID: 29227213.
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    13. Crawford N, Prendergast D, Oehlert JW, Shaw GM, Stevenson DK, Rappaport N, Sirota M, Tishkoff SA, Sondheimer N. Divergent Patterns of Mitochondrial and Nuclear Ancestry Are Associated with the Risk for Preterm Birth. J Pediatr. 2018 Mar; 194:40-46.e4. PMID: 29249523.
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    14. Pineda S, Sigdel TK, Chen J, Jackson AM, Sirota M, Sarwal MM. Novel Non-Histocompatibility Antigen Mismatched Variants Improve the Ability to Predict Antibody-Mediated Rejection Risk in Kidney Transplant. Front Immunol. 2017; 8:1687. PMID: 29259604.
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    15. Mirza AN, Fry MA, Urman NM, Atwood SX, Roffey J, Ott GR, Chen B, Lee A, Brown AS, Aasi SZ, Hollmig T, Ator MA, Dorsey BD, Ruggeri BR, Zificsak CA, Sirota M, Tang JY, Butte A, Epstein E, Sarin KY, Oro AE. Combined inhibition of atypical PKC and histone deacetylase 1 is cooperative in basal cell carcinoma treatment. JCI Insight. 2017 Nov 02; 2(21). PMID: 29093271.
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    16. Aran D, Camarda R, Odegaard J, Paik H, Oskotsky B, Krings G, Goga A, Sirota M, Butte AJ. Comprehensive analysis of normal adjacent to tumor transcriptomes. Nat Commun. 2017 10 20; 8(1):1077. PMID: 29057876.
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    17. Hadley D, Pan J, El-Sayed O, Aljabban J, Aljabban I, Azad TD, Hadied MO, Raza S, Rayikanti BA, Chen B, Paik H, Aran D, Spatz J, Himmelstein D, Panahiazar M, Bhattacharya S, Sirota M, Musen MA, Butte AJ. Precision annotation of digital samples in NCBI's gene expression omnibus. Sci Data. 2017 09 19; 4:170125. PMID: 28925997.
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    18. Sirota M, Sarwal MM. Transplantomics: Toward Precision Medicine in Transplantation Research. Transplantation. 2017 08; 101(8):1777-1782. PMID: 28121910.
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    19. Gianfrancesco MA, Schmajuk G, Haserodt S, Trupin L, Izadi Z, Jafri K, Shiboski S, Sirota M. Hydroxychloroquine dosing in immune-mediated diseases: implications for patient safety. Rheumatol Int. 2017 10; 37(10):1611-1618. PMID: 28748425.
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    20. Apeltsin L, Wang S, von Büdingen HC, Sirota M. A Haystack Heuristic for Autoimmune Disease Biomarker Discovery Using Next-Gen Immune Repertoire Sequencing Data. Sci Rep. 2017 Jul 13; 7(1):5338. PMID: 28706301.
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    21. Chen B, Ma L, Paik H, Sirota M, Wei W, Chua MS, So S, Butte AJ. Reversal of cancer gene expression correlates with drug efficacy and reveals therapeutic targets. Nat Commun. 2017 Jul 12; 8:16022. PMID: 28699633.
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    22. Low YS, Daugherty AC, Schroeder EA, Chen W, Seto T, Weber S, Lim M, Hastie T, Mathur M, Desai M, Farrington C, Radin AA, Sirota M, Kenkare P, Thompson CA, Yu PP, Gomez SL, Sledge GW, Kurian AW, Shah NH. Synergistic drug combinations from electronic health records and gene expression. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 May 01; 24(3):565-576. PMID: 27940607.
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    23. Schmajuk G, Tonner C, Trupin L, Li J, Sarkar U, Ludwig D, Shiboski S, Sirota M, Dudley RA, Murray S, Yazdany J. Using health-system-wide data to understand hepatitis B virus prophylaxis and reactivation outcomes in patients receiving rituximab. Medicine (Baltimore). 2017 Mar; 96(13):e6528. PMID: 28353614.
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    24. Yeung YA, Foletti D, Deng X, Abdiche Y, Strop P, Glanville J, Pitts S, Lindquist K, Sundar PD, Sirota M, Hasa-Moreno A, Pham A, Melton Witt J, Ni I, Pons J, Shelton D, Rajpal A, Chaparro-Riggers J. Germline-encoded neutralization of a Staphylococcus aureus virulence factor by the human antibody repertoire. Nat Commun. 2016 Nov 18; 7:13376. PMID: 27857134.
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    25. Paik H, Chen B, Sirota M, Hadley D, Butte AJ. Integrating Clinical Phenotype and Gene Expression Data to Prioritize Novel Drug Uses. CPT Pharmacometrics Syst Pharmacol. 2016 Nov; 5(11):599-607. PMID: 27860440.
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    26. Wang A, Padula A, Sirota M, Woodruff TJ. Environmental influences on reproductive health: the importance of chemical exposures. Fertil Steril. 2016 09 15; 106(4):905-29. PMID: 27513554.
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    27. Kosti I, Jain N, Aran D, Butte AJ, Sirota M. Cross-tissue Analysis of Gene and Protein Expression in Normal and Cancer Tissues. Sci Rep. 2016 05 04; 6:24799. PMID: 27142790; PMCID: PMC4855174.
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    28. Bagley SC, Sirota M, Chen R, Butte AJ, Altman RB. Constraints on Biological Mechanism from Disease Comorbidity Using Electronic Medical Records and Database of Genetic Variants. PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 Apr; 12(4):e1004885. PMID: 27115429; PMCID: PMC4846031.
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    29. Cho HG, Fiorentino D, Lewis M, Sirota M, Sarin KY. Identification of Alpha-Adrenergic Agonists as Potential Therapeutic Agents for Dermatomyositis through Drug-Repurposing Using Public Expression Datasets. J Invest Dermatol. 2016 07; 136(7):1517-1520. PMID: 26975725.
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    30. Aran D, Sirota M, Butte AJ. Systematic pan-cancer analysis of tumour purity. Nat Commun. 2015 Dec 04; 6:8971. PMID: 26634437; PMCID: PMC4671203.
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    31. Chen B, Greenside P, Paik H, Sirota M, Hadley D, Butte AJ. Relating Chemical Structure to Cellular Response: An Integrative Analysis of Gene Expression, Bioactivity, and Structural Data Across 11,000 Compounds. CPT Pharmacometrics Syst Pharmacol. 2015 Oct; 4(10):576-84. PMID: 26535158; PMCID: PMC4625862.
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    32. Chen B, Sirota M, Fan-Minogue H, Hadley D, Butte AJ. Relating hepatocellular carcinoma tumor samples and cell lines using gene expression data in translational research. BMC Med Genomics. 2015; 8 Suppl 2:S5. PMID: 26043652; PMCID: PMC4460709.
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    33. Sirota M, Willemsen G, Sundar P, Pitts SJ, Potluri S, Prifti E, Kennedy S, Ehrlich SD, Neuteboom J, Kluft C, Malone KE, Cox DR, de Geus EJ, Boomsma DI. Effect of genome and environment on metabolic and inflammatory profiles. PLoS One. 2015; 10(4):e0120898. PMID: 25853885; PMCID: PMC4390246.
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    34. Fan-Minogue H, Chen B, Sikora-Wohlfeld W, Sirota M, Butte AJ. A systematic assessment of linking gene expression with genetic variants for prioritizing candidate targets. Pac Symp Biocomput. 2015; 383-94. PMID: 25592598; PMCID: PMC4299914.
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    35. Wu M, Sirota M, Butte AJ, Chen B. Characteristics of drug combination therapy in oncology by analyzing clinical trial data on ClinicalTrials.gov. Pac Symp Biocomput. 2015; 68-79. PMID: 25592569; PMCID: PMC4361221.
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    36. Palanichamy A, Apeltsin L, Kuo TC, Sirota M, Wang S, Pitts SJ, Sundar PD, Telman D, Zhao LZ, Derstine M, Abounasr A, Hauser SL, von Büdingen HC. Immunoglobulin class-switched B cells form an active immune axis between CNS and periphery in multiple sclerosis. Sci Transl Med. 2014 Aug 06; 6(248):248ra106. PMID: 25100740; PMCID: PMC4176763.
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    37. von Büdingen HC, Kuo TC, Sirota M, van Belle CJ, Apeltsin L, Glanville J, Cree BA, Gourraud PA, Schwartzburg A, Huerta G, Telman D, Sundar PD, Casey T, Cox DR, Hauser SL. B cell exchange across the blood-brain barrier in multiple sclerosis. J Clin Invest. 2012 Dec; 122(12):4533-43. PMID: 23160197; PMCID: PMC3533544.
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    38. Kodama K, Horikoshi M, Toda K, Yamada S, Hara K, Irie J, Sirota M, Morgan AA, Chen R, Ohtsu H, Maeda S, Kadowaki T, Butte AJ. Expression-based genome-wide association study links the receptor CD44 in adipose tissue with type 2 diabetes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 May 01; 109(18):7049-54. PMID: 22499789; PMCID: PMC3344989.
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    39. Khatri P, Sirota M, Butte AJ. Ten years of pathway analysis: current approaches and outstanding challenges. PLoS Comput Biol. 2012; 8(2):e1002375. PMID: 22383865; PMCID: PMC3285573.
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    40. Liu LY, Schaub MA, Sirota M, Butte AJ. Sex differences in disease risk from reported genome-wide association study findings. Hum Genet. 2012 Mar; 131(3):353-64. PMID: 21858542; PMCID: PMC3260375.
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    41. Sirota M, Dudley JT, Kim J, Chiang AP, Morgan AA, Sweet-Cordero A, Sage J, Butte AJ. Discovery and preclinical validation of drug indications using compendia of public gene expression data. Sci Transl Med. 2011 Aug 17; 3(96):96ra77. PMID: 21849665; PMCID: PMC3502016.
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    42. Dudley JT, Sirota M, Shenoy M, Pai RK, Roedder S, Chiang AP, Morgan AA, Sarwal MM, Pasricha PJ, Butte AJ. Computational repositioning of the anticonvulsant topiramate for inflammatory bowel disease. Sci Transl Med. 2011 Aug 17; 3(96):96ra76. PMID: 21849664; PMCID: PMC3479650.
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    43. Sirota M, Butte AJ. The role of bioinformatics in studying rheumatic and autoimmune disorders. Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2011 06 21; 7(8):489-94. PMID: 21691330.
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    44. Liu LY, Schaub MA, Sirota M, Butte AJ. Transmission distortion in Crohn's disease risk gene ATG16L1 leads to sex difference in disease association. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2012 Feb; 18(2):312-22. PMID: 21618365; PMCID: PMC3165065.
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    45. Davydov EV, Goode DL, Sirota M, Cooper GM, Sidow A, Batzoglou S. Identifying a high fraction of the human genome to be under selective constraint using GERP++. PLoS Comput Biol. 2010 Dec 02; 6(12):e1001025. PMID: 21152010; PMCID: PMC2996323.
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    46. Chen R, Davydov EV, Sirota M, Butte AJ. Non-synonymous and synonymous coding SNPs show similar likelihood and effect size of human disease association. PLoS One. 2010 Oct 22; 5(10):e13574. PMID: 21042586; PMCID: PMC2962641.
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    47. Dudley JT, Schadt E, Sirota M, Butte AJ, Ashley E. Drug discovery in a multidimensional world: systems, patterns, and networks. J Cardiovasc Transl Res. 2010 Oct; 3(5):438-47. PMID: 20677029.
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    48. Sirota M, Schaub MA, Batzoglou S, Robinson WH, Butte AJ. Autoimmune disease classification by inverse association with SNP alleles. PLoS Genet. 2009 Dec; 5(12):e1000792. PMID: 20041220; PMCID: PMC2791168.
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    49. Schaub MA, Kaplow IM, Sirota M, Do CB, Butte AJ, Batzoglou S. A Classifier-based approach to identify genetic similarities between diseases. Bioinformatics. 2009 Jun 15; 25(12):i21-9. PMID: 19477990; PMCID: PMC2687980.
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    50. Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature. 2007 Nov 08; 450(7167):203-18. PMID: 17994087.
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    51. Gross SS, Do CB, Sirota M, Batzoglou S. CONTRAST: a discriminative, phylogeny-free approach to multiple informant de novo gene prediction. Genome Biol. 2007; 8(12):R269. PMID: 18096039; PMCID: PMC2246271.
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