Robert Scharpf

Associate Professor of Oncology and Biostatistics, Co-Founder and Senior Strategy Advisor for Delfi Diagnostics

Baltimore City County, Maryland, United States

About

I am co-founder and Head of Data Science at Delfi Diagnostics and an Associate Professor of Oncology and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. I do research in cancer genomics with applications in sequencing of cell-free DNA for noninvasive cancer prediction, pre-processing of high-throughput sequencing data, copy number analysis, and multi-study hierarchical models for differential gene expression. I teach a course in Bayesian Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Experience

  • Co-Founder and Head of Data Science at Delfi Diagnostics
    2019 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

  • The Johns Hopkins University (16 yrs 6 mos)
    • Associate Professor of Oncology and Biostatistics
      2018 - Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

    • Assistant Professor of Oncology and Biostatistics
      2010 - 2018 · 8 yrs

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    2007 - 2010 · 3 yrs

  • Visiting Assistant Professor at American University of Armenia
    2007 - 2008 · 1 yr