CSBC Investigator Andrea Bild, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Division of Molecular Pharmacology at City of Hope Medical Center. She is an avid hiker who has trekked up mountains in Utah and Colorado to admire the beauty of nature. Similarly, as a scientist and cancer researcher, she has set out on a journey to understand the complex landscape of cancer.

In college at the University of Florida, she volunteered in a lab that studied immune cell signaling. This experience led her to pursue a Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the University of Colorado focused on oncogenic signaling in breast cancer.

Although computational tools for sophisticated data analysis were just emerging during her time as a graduate student, Andrea recognized the potential of these informatics technologies for the exploration of tumors. Thus, as an independent investigator, she developed approaches to analyze vast amounts of data to identify coordinated patterns of oncogenic signaling.