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Ron Anafi

· Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania · Aerospace Engineering

Active 2001–2024

h-index26
Citations4.1k
Papers6729 last 5y
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About

Ron C Anafi, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicine specializing in Sleep Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Faculty Scholar at the Penn Institute for Bioinformatics and a co-investigator at the Center for Subcellular Genomics. His research focuses on the influence of sleep and circadian biology on physiology and disease, utilizing techniques from machine learning, engineering, and systems biology to understand how molecular rhythms affect the brain and body. His work includes studying daily rhythms in gene, protein, and metabolite expression across various species, and translating these findings to human health, especially in the context of illness. He is particularly interested in how molecular rhythms are disrupted in diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration. Dr. Anafi has developed methods to analyze rhythmic signals from large human tissue databases to better characterize human circadian molecular physiology and its alterations in disease states.

Research topics

  • Biology
  • Medicine
  • Computer science
  • Neuroscience
  • Internal medicine

Frequent coauthors

  • John B. Hogenesch

    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

    57 shared

  • Lauren J. Francey

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    26 shared

  • Gang Wu

    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

    26 shared

  • David F. Smith

    19 shared

  • Marc D. Ruben

    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

    12 shared

  • Philip Gehrman

    University of Pennsylvania

    12 shared

  • Brian P. Delisle

    University of Kentucky

    12 shared

  • John Harer

    11 shared

Awards & honors

  • Faculty Scholar, Penn Institute for Bioinformatics

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