MD Anderson’s John Weinstein has been elected Fellow of the AACR Academy

Career Highlights

• Elected Fellow of the AACR Academy in 2025
• Chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Professor of Systems Biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center

About the Role

John N. Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D., leads hybrid laboratory and computational research groups focusing on integrative multi-omic studies and drug discovery.

Responsibilities

• Developed the NCI-60 human cancer cell lines at the DNA, RNA, protein and epigenomic levels
• Introduced the color-coded clustered heat map (CHM) for visualizing complex biological data
• Conducted research on molecular profiling of cancer and drug discovery
• Served as a scientific advisor to MD Anderson’s Proteomics, Functional Proteomics Reverse Phase Protein Array (RPPA), Metabolomics and Single Cell Genomics Cores
• Directed the Bioinformatics Shared Resource at MD Anderson

Qualifications

• B.A. in Biology, Ph.D. in Biophysics, M.D. from Harvard University
• Internship and residency in Medicine at Stanford University
• Research focus on integrative multi-omic studies and issues of data quality control
• Contributions to FAIR principles of Data Science

Skills

• Data science
• Multi-omic molecular profiling
• Artificial intelligence for cancer drug discovery
• Visualization of biological data

Benefits

• Recognition as a Fellow of the AACR Academy
• Leadership roles in MD Anderson’s research community
• Funding from various foundations and grants

Pay

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Schedule

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