Edwin Oh

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Professor, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV

Associate Professor, Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine

Expertise: Functional Genomics, Infectious Diseases, Schizophrenia and Autism, Personalized Medicine, Addiction

Biography

Dr. Edwin Oh is an expert in neurogenetics, whose primary research examines the genetic and structural variants that contribute to human health and disease. He studies genetic mutations to improve the cellular and molecular diagnosis of genetic diseases and to enable the development of therapeutic paradigms.

His current research program involves screening wastewater for the presence of the SARS-COV-2 virus (COVID-19) and influenza, and sequencing the RNA of the virus to contribute to future vaccine development. He's also an expert in schizophrenia, autism, and addiction.

Prior to joining UNLV as a professor in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, Dr. Oh served as an assistant professor in the department of neurology at Duke University. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.

His research has been published in myriad journals including Blood, Human Molecular Genetics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Education

Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of Michigan

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DRI Contributes to Study Using AI in Wastewater Surveillance for Detection of Emerging Virus Pathogens

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Wastewater surveillance became a popular choice among public health officials looking to track rapid virus mutations and spread patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. But what if there was a way to detect emerging virus pathogens even faster — or to even sniff out new variants possibly before patients even realize they’re ill? A new UNLV-led study is moving that dream one step closer to reality by pairing wastewater sample surveillance with artificial intelligence. The results appear in the latest issue of the journal Nature Communications.

New UNLV research uses AI to look at wastewater samples for viruses

UNLV researchers are now using the help of AI to look at wastewater samples for viruses before people experience symptoms.

AI Enhances Early Detection of Emerging Viruses through Wastewater Surveillance, UNLV Study Finds

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Pairing artificial intelligence (AI) with wastewater surveillance may enable public health authorities to identify emerging viruses earlier than current methods, according to a new study led by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The findings were published in Nature Communications.

UNLV researcher explains how AI helped detect emerging viruses in new study

A new study and new research formulated at UNLV is leading the way to track rapid virus mutations and spread patterns, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.