Christopher A. Miller, PhD

Christopher A. Miller, PhD

Associate Professor

Address:
Division of Oncology
Mail Stop 8007-0057-06
Washington University
660 South Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110

6th Floor, Southwest Tower (office)

Research Interests
  • Bioinformatics
  • Cancer genomics
  • Tumor evolution
  • Immunogenomics
Research

I’m an Associate Professor in the Division of Oncology, where my focus is on developing and applying computational tools to provide insight into the origins and progression of cancer. I earned Bachelor degrees in Biology and Computer Science from Truman State University and my PhD in Computational Biology from Baylor College of Medicine.

My core research interests include understanding the clonal architecture of tumors and how they evolve in response to therapy, with a special focus on hematologic cancers. I also study effective design and targeting of cancer immunotherapies, developing open-source software for interpreting and visualizing genomic data, and integrative analysis that translates multi-dimensional genomic data into both functional and actionable contexts.

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Education

  • 2011: PhD, Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
  • 2005: BS, Biology and Computer Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO

Academic Positions

  • present-2022: Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • 2022-2016: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • 2016-2015: Instructor in Medicine, Division of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • 2017-2013: Cancer Analysis Group Leader, The Genome Institute, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
  • 2013-2011: Staff Scientist – Medical Genomics, The Genome Institute, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Editorial/Review Responsibilities

  • Reviewer for Bioinformatics, Cancer Cell, Genome Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications, Genome Research, Blood Cancer Discovery, Scientific Data, BMC Evolutionary Biology
  • Grant reviewer for Dutch Cancer Society (KWF Kankerbestrijding)
  • Grant reviewer for Siteman Investment Fund

Professional Societies

  • American Association for Cancer Research
  • International Society for Computational Biology