Claudia Cabrera

Dr. Claudia Cabrera is a Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics at Queen Mary University of London, affiliated with the William Harvey Research Institute within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. Her primary department is Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine. Her research focuses on developing bioinformatics tools for understanding complex traits and diseases, particularly in genetical genomics of hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, trauma response, and pediatric endocrinology. She leads the development of software like genomicper, which uses circular genomic permutation to analyze GWAS data, enhancing pathway association significance while accounting for genomic structure.

Her work integrates high-throughput data analysis (e.g., whole-genome sequencing, RNA-Seq) and genomic pathway testing frameworks. Key projects include studying somatic mutations in aldosterone-producing adenomas and genetic variants linked to puberty timing. She collaborates with the NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre and has published extensively on hypertension genetics, genomic permutation methods, and precision medicine applications.

Dr. Cabrera’s research emphasizes translational medicine, bridging computational biology with clinical outcomes in cardiovascular and endocrine disorders. Her lab’s innovations in genomic analysis tools are widely applied in understanding disease mechanisms and drug target discovery. She also investigates trauma-induced inflammation and genomic drivers of blood pressure regulation through large-scale genetic studies.