Dr. Hua Xu is an assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University. His primary research interests include: 1) natural language processing (NLP) of clinical text; 2) text mining of biomedical literature; 3) EMR-based data mining. Hua holds a B.S. degree in Biochemistry from Nanjing University in China, an M.S. in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University.

Active Research Projects:
1. Informatics approaches to Pharmacogenomics
2. EMR-based epidemiological studies of cancers
3. Drug-ADE detection from EMR - pharmacovigilance

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