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PRIYANK RAJ

Houston

Summary

Master’s student with a strong foundation in biomedical informatics

Eager to contribute to impactful projects that advance healthcare technologies

Seeking full-time employment on F-1 STEM OPT starting in May 2026

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Graduate Research Assistant

McWilliams SBMI, UTHealth Houston
Houston, TX
05.2025 - 10.2025
  • Pursued informatics research in the iSNAP team at MSBMI.
  • Performed qualitative coding for socio-behavioral and intra-personal concepts on a social media dataset to understand information- and care-seeking behaviors related to weight loss medications use

Graduate Research Assistant

McWilliams SBMI, UTHealth Houston
Houston
08.2024 - 10.2024
  • Compiled search keywords for social determinants of health (SDoH) factors to enhance an NLP model.
  • Developed Python script to map brand name of drugs to ingredients based on RxCUI.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

McWilliams SBMI, UTHealth Houston
Houston, TX
09.2023 - 05.2024
  • Created and administered quizzes, counseled students, and graded assignments for over 80 students, under the supervision of course instructor, for BMI 5310 (Foundations of Biomedical Information Sciences I) at MSBMI
  • Received excellent feedback from students regarding support and accessibility

Research Assistant

McWilliams SBMI, UTHealth Houston
Houston, TX
09.2022 - 08.2023
  • Conducted research with Dr. Yang Gong, developing an online patient self-reported outcome platform for cancer patients, using the REDCap application
  • Identified challenges in selecting patient-reported outcome measurements (PROMs), which contributed to a conference publication at MEDINFO 2023
  • Selected PROMs for the application; resulted in a first-author, peer-reviewed manuscript in the JAMIA Open journal

Research Assistant

MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Houston, TX
08.2016 - 03.2020
  • Conducted wet lab research in the fields of behavioral neuroscience and cancer biology
  • Gained experience with experimental techniques such as cell culture, NMR metabolomics, gel electrophoresis, PCR, and mouse models for cancer and animal behavior
  • Work resulted in several peer-reviewed original research and review publications

Education

Master of Science - Biomedical Informatics

McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics (MSBMI), UTHealth Houston
Houston, TX
05-2026

Certificate - Computer Programming

Houston Community College
Houston, TX
05-2021

Bachelor - Pharmacy

Birla Institute of Technology And Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani)
Pilani, Rajasthan, India
05-2016

Skills

  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Scientific communication in English
  • Project Management & Coordination
  • Health Data Analytics & Statistical Research
  • Application of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare

PUBLICATIONS

  • Raj, P., Cho, Y., Jiang, Y., & Gong, Y. (2024). Challenges in Selecting Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Use in a Patient-Facing Technology. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 310, 1432-1433.
  • Raj, P., Cho, Y., Jiang, Y., & Gong, Y. (2023). Selecting patient-reported outcome measures for a patient-facing technology. JAMIA open, 6(4), ooa104.
  • Kato, D., Egu, N., Okele, I., Raj, P., & Gong, Y. (2023). Graphical Representation of Lipid Panel: A Simplified Time-Series Data Display. In Context Sensitive Health Informatics and the Pandemic Boost (pp. 117-121). IOS Press.
  • Pudakalakatti, S., Raj, P., Salizzio, T. C., Enriquez, J. S., Bourgeois, D., Dutta, P., ... & Bhattacharya, P. K. (2022). Metabolic Imaging Using Hyperpolarization for Assessment of Premalignancy. Cancer Immunoprevention: Methods and Protocols, 169-180.
  • Tran, A. M., Chalbatani, G. M., Berland, L., Cruz De Los Santos, M., Raj, P., Jalali, S. A., ... & Calin, G. A. (2020). A new world of biomarkers and therapeutics for female reproductive system and breast cancers: circular RNAs. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 8, 50.
  • Yan, L., Raj, P., Yao, W., & Ying, H. (2019). Glucose metabolism in pancreatic cancer. Cancers, 11(10), 1460.
  • Farooqi, A. A., Fuentes-Mattei, E., Fayyaz, S., Raj, P., Goblirsch, M., Poltronieri, P., & Calin, G. A. (2019, October). Interplay between epigenetic abnormalities and deregulated expression of microRNAs in cancer. In Seminars in cancer biology (Vol. 58, pp. 47-55). Academic Press.
  • Pandey, A., Raj, P., Goru, S. K., Kadakol, A., Malek, V., Sharma, N., & Gaikwad, A. B. (2017). Esculetin ameliorates hepatic fibrosis in high fat diet induced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by regulation of FoxO1 mediated pathway. Pharmacological Reports, 69(4), 666-672.

Timeline

Graduate Research Assistant

McWilliams SBMI, UTHealth Houston
05.2025 - 10.2025

Graduate Research Assistant

McWilliams SBMI, UTHealth Houston
08.2024 - 10.2024

Graduate Teaching Assistant

McWilliams SBMI, UTHealth Houston
09.2023 - 05.2024

Research Assistant

McWilliams SBMI, UTHealth Houston
09.2022 - 08.2023

Research Assistant

MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
08.2016 - 03.2020

Master of Science - Biomedical Informatics

McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics (MSBMI), UTHealth Houston

Certificate - Computer Programming

Houston Community College

Bachelor - Pharmacy

Birla Institute of Technology And Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani)