Adi Tarca

Adi Tarca is a tenured Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wayne State School of Medicine, and concurrently holds an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering at Wayne State University. He is actively engaged in teaching, having offered the graduate course MGG7050 – Bioinformatics: theory and practice every Winter Term since 2023.

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Research Interests

• High-dimensional biology and multi-omics integration in pregnancy
• Machine-learning approaches to predictive modeling in reproductive health
• Epigenetic and proteomic biomarkers of obstetrical syndromes such as preeclampsia and preterm birth
• Evolutionary genomics of placental adaptation
• Vaginal and amniotic microbiome dynamics across gestation
• Computational method development for pathway and network analysis (e.g., PADOG, SPIA)

Dr. Tarca’s recent publications reveal a sustained trajectory toward precision obstetrics: leveraging crowdsourced data, single-cell RNA-seq, proteomics of extracellular vesicles, and large language models to dissect parturition biology and translate findings into point-of-care diagnostics.

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Advising & Grants
While the text lists no individual students, Dr. Tarca’s extensive multi-cohort longitudinal studies and leadership in consortia such as the Microbiome Preterm Birth DREAM Challenge imply active mentorship of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in both the medical and computational sciences.

Laboratories & Teams
Dr. Tarca is expected to lead a trans-disciplinary laboratory embedded within the Perinatology Research Branch and affiliated with the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University, integrating wet-lab pregnancy biology with advanced computational pipelines.