DEISY GYSI

Currently, I'm a Associate Research Scientist at the BarabasiLab @ Network Science Institute - Northeastern University) and a Research Trainee at Channing Division of Network Medicine (Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital). I'm mostly interested in biomarker discovery for complex diseases related to auto-immune response (i.e. as rheumatoid arthritis - RA - and inflammatory bowel disease - IBD), mental disorders (such as autism spectrum disorders, bipolar, schizophrenia, PTSD, etc) and senior disorder (Alzheimer and Parkinson). I'm also interested in drug repurpusing for those diseases, mostly using a combination of multi-omic, machine learning and network analysis approaches. I'm highly interested in developing methodologies and R packages... During COVID-19 we decided to use our skills and focus on repurpusing drug candidates for treating this disease, a publication can be found here. I was also involved with the project that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the..