Therapeutic Sciences Graduate Program

Dr. Bailey is a practicing physician in Transfusion Medicine and Coagulation at Miriam and Rhode Island Hospitals. He is a core member of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology and co-director of their PhD program. He studies infectious disease genetics and genomics aiming to understand host and pathogen interactions within the context of immunity and human disease. His research is integrative combining experimental and computational approaches. The majority of his current research relates to the parasitic infection malaria—including the direct consequences of infection, parasite genome structure, tracking the spread of drug resistance, and the examination of related diseases including the cancer Burkitt lymphoma. He has made major contributions to methods for analyzing whole genome sequencing in particular to study segmental duplication and copy number variation as well as more recent methods for high-throughput pathogen targeted sequencing to track pathogens across space and time.