Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA Endowed Professor
Elana J. Fertig, PhD
October 13, 2026
About Dr. Fertig
Elana J. Fertig, PhD, was named the Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and the Dean E. Albert Reece Endowed Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in December of 2024. She is also the Associate Director of Quantitative Sciences at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Maryland, she was a Professor of Oncology as well as a Division and Associate Cancer Center Director in Quantitative Sciences and Co-Director of the Convergence Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Fertig advances a new predictive medicine paradigm for oncology by converging systems biology with multi-omics technology development. Her computational cancer biology research is inspired by her background as a NASA fellow in weather prediction. She aims to invent computational techniques that blend multi-platform high-throughput with mechanistic mathematical modeling and artificial intelligence methods to forecast the cellular and molecular pathways of tumor progression and therapeutic response over time. Her combined expertise in computational oncology, chaos theory, nonlinear dynamics, and tumor immunotherapy ensures translational relevance and mechanistic validation of computational findings.
To learn more, please see Dr. Fertig's Faculty Profile.
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