Boutros Lab

Our mission and passion are to cure cancer through data-intensive research, training, and infrastructure teambuilding. We work to achieve this goal through implementation of our core values including excellence, continual growth, community, diversity, and teamwork. We are absolutely committed to changing clinical practice by developing highly personalized forms of cancer treatment. Using computational techniques called bioinformatics, we analyze very large datasets to create clinically useful diagnostics that personalize therapy. As “Big Data” researchers, we both apply existing biocomputing techniques, while continuously working to improve and create new methods. We hope to influence and facilitate the next generation of researchers, who will use these techniques with the ultimate goal of curing cancer! Led by Principal Investigator Dr. Paul C. Boutros, our team consists of individuals with diverse research backgrounds. Our group is composed of undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral associates, clinical fellows, bioinformaticians, data scientists, software engineers, graphic artists, and others. The team has a variety of backgrounds ranging from Bioinformatics to Biochemistry, Computer Science to Chemistry, and Physics to Statistics. Additionally, we leverage partnerships within the broader UCLA community, as well as, with industry partners. This diversity allows for a fruitful, collaborative environment yielding great productivity and exciting research. Our current research foci include studying the early determinants of cancer evolution and developing methods for multi-modal data-analysis.