Cristian Coarfa

Cristian Coarfa, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, holding joint appointments at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for Precision Environmental Health. His research focuses on integrative analysis of multi-omics datasets to uncover biological insights, with expertise in transcriptomics, epigenomics, and metabolomics. His lab develops computational tools for genomic data analysis, including pipelines for NGS data and structural variant detection. Education: PhD and MS in Computer Science from Rice University.

Research Interests:

• Multi-omics data integration (genetic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, metabolomic)
• Computational methods for high-throughput sequencing analysis
• Applications in cancer, environmental health, and metabolic disorders

Recent Article Trends: Coarfa's 2025 publications emphasize single-cell and spatial transcriptomics in pulmonary fibrosis, environmental epigenetics, and biomarker discovery in cancer and transplantation. His work bridges bioinformatics tool development with clinical applications in lung disease and cancer biology.