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General Information

Full Name Dario Ghersi
Citizenship American, Italian
Languages English, Italian

Education and Training

  • 2010 - 2014
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Princeton University
    • Structural bioinformatics and network-based approaches to study cancer mutations
  • 2005 - 2010
    PhD
    New York University, New York, NY
    • Computational approaches for predicting and characterizing protein binding sites
  • 2004-2005
    Research Fellow
    Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, NY
    • Studying heterologous immunity in antiviral CD8+ responses with agent-based models
  • 1998-2004
    MD
    University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
    • Mathematical models of the immune system

Experience

  • 2020-now
    Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
    College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • 2022
    Visiting Professor
    Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern
  • 2014-2020
    Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
    College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Service

Honors and Awards

  • 2017
    • First-year Faculty Award for Extramural Funding (UNO)
  • 2004
    • Medal for Academic Achievements (University of Genoa)

Other Interests

  • Too many to list them all!
    • Collecting and playing guitars and other string instruments
    • Rving around the U.S.
    • Watching baseball games and studying baseball analytics
    • Learning new languages