Melissa Haendel

Melissa Anne Haendel
Haendel in 2020
Alma mater	Reed College University of Wisconsin–Madison
Known for	Bioinformatics
Scientific career
Institutions	Anschutz Medical Campus Oregon Health & Science University Oregon State University
Thesis	Identification and characterization of the novel gene, axotrophin, using an in vitro gene trap preselection method (1999)

Melissa Anne Haendel is an American bioinformaticist who is the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor at the UNC School of Medicine.^[1] She is also the Director of Precision Health & Translational Informatics, deputy director of Computational Science at The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute. She serves as Director of the Center for Data to Health (CD2H). Her research makes use of data to improve the discovery and diagnosis of diseases. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Haendel joined with the National Institutes of Health to launch the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), which looks to identify the risk factors that can predict severity of disease outcome and help to identify treatments.