Maricel Gabriela KannView profile
Associate Professor
Dr. Maricel Gabriela Kann is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She holds a BS and MS in Chemistry from the Universidad de la República (Uruguay), a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Michigan, and completed postdoctoral training at the NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information. Her research focuses on computational approaches to annotate the human genome, elucidate disease mechanisms through protein interactions, and predict the role of genetic mutations in diseases. She teaches courses like BINF 313 (Intro to Bioinformatics) and BINF 495 (Bioinformatics Seminar), emphasizing both foundational and advanced bioinformatics principles. Dr. Kann has secured grants such as the 2024 ANID-funded project on drug development targeting cancer mutations and a 2025 UMB ICTR grant for AI-driven multi-omics lung cancer therapy. Her work spans translational bioinformatics, domain-centric analysis of cancer mutations, and integrative approaches linking genotype to phenotype. She has contributed to over 50 peer-reviewed publications, including seminal works on protein domain landscapes, regulatory variant prediction, and hybrid curation methods. Her research integrates computational methods with experimental biology, addressing challenges in precision medicine and disease gene discovery. Collaborations involve developing tools for variant prioritization, biomarker identification, and multi-omics data integration. Dr. Kann’s contributions have been recognized through invited lectures at institutions like the University of Andres Bello and keynotes at Indo-US conferences on big data in disease biology.
