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Raluca Mihaela Gordan

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Division of Integrative Genomics
Duke Box 3382, Durham, NC 27710
368 Plantation St., AS5-1059, Worcester, MA 01605

Selected Grants


Collaborative Research: NSF/MCB-BSF: The effect of transcription factor binding on UV lesion accumulation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2027

University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 1994 - 2027

Training Program in Bioinformatics at the Intersection of Cancer Immunology and Microbiome

ResearchTraining Faculty · Awarded by National Cancer Institute · 2020 - 2026

Genetic and Genomics Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

The Duke FUNCTION Center: Pioneering the comprehensive identification of combinatorial noncoding causes of disease

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Human Genome Research Institute · 2020 - 2025

Summer Scholars in Genome Sciences & Medicine

Inst. Training Prgm or CMESignificant Contributor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2017 - 2025

The role of transcription factor proteins in mutagenesis at their binding sites

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2025

Helix-distorting DNA damages at transcription factor binding sites: causes and effects

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by US-Israel Binational Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024

Role of DNA structural dynamics in mutagenesis and oncogenesis

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Trustees of Columbia University · 2022 - 2023

IRES Track 1 IRTG Engaged in Dissecting and Reengineering the Regulatory Genome

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023

Discovery of DNA determinants of transcription factor binding and function in photoreceptors

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Washington University School of Medicine · 2017 - 2022

Role of DNA structural dynamics in mutagenesis and oncogenesis

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2022

Determining Mechanisms of Rewiring of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle by a Virus

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2018 - 2022

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2021

HARDAC-M: Enabling memory-intensive computation for genomics

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2020 - 2021

Differential effects of genomic context on the binding specificity of paralogous transcription factors

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2021

New methods for quantitative modeling of protein-DNA interactions

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2020

Genetics Training Grant

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1979 - 2020

A hands-on, integrative next-generation sequencing course: design, experiment, and analysis

Inst. Training Prgm or CMETraining Faculty · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2020

Statistical/Computational Methods for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2015 - 2020

Determining mechanisms of rewiring of the eukaryotic cell cycle by a virus without disrupting network function

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2018

Collaborative Research: Experimental and Computational Studies of DNA Binding by Human Paralogous Transcription Factors

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2017

HARDAC+:Reproducible HPC for next-generation genomics

EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2016 - 2017

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation · 2014 - 2016

External Relationships


  • University of Massachusetts Worster

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