Rawan Shraim, PhD
I am a graduate of the Biomedical Engineering program at Drexel University and a Bioinformatics Scientist II at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). My focus has mainly been drug development and my journey has been quite diverse, ranging from hands-on lab work to contributing to the safety teams for clinical trials and currently as a bioinformatician on the data analysis side of developing and identifying therapies. My PhD work focused on computationally identifying immunotherapeutic targets in pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma using proteomics and genomic data and developing tools to process the data. Within CHOP I am part of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research and work on identifying new therapies and genomic characterization of pediatric B-cell and T-cell leukemias and lymphomas. When I’m not busy with school and work, you can find me lost in a good book, experimenting in the kitchen, or off on adventures, exploring different corners of the globe and soaking up all the diverse cultures I can find.
