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Immunology, oncology, and NGS data mining to find solutions in your data. >150 publications, >4000 citations.

Profile Summary

Successful regulatory scientist with dozens of approved CAP/CLIA/MolDX/IVDR CE-MARK validations for NGS and proteomics. Scientific editor and author, Six Sigma statistician with clinical trials experience. GMP vaccine production, immunodiagnostics, NGS experience including finding and reporting RNA fusions, HRD, HLA, neoepitope load, and early detection of cancer.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Mycology
• ☆ Marine Biology
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Data Mining
• ☆ R

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Medical Writing

Research Market Research, Feasibility Study, Scientific and Technical Research

Work Experience

VP

Caris Life Sciences

September 2018 - October 2021

Professor

Arizona State University

May 2006 - September 2018

Director

Translational Genomics Research Institute

May 2003 - May 2006

Director

GE Healthcare Ltd Amersham

May 2002 - May 2003

Sr. Scientist

Motorola Solutions Inc

January 2001 - May 2002

chemist

Peterson Industries

March 1987 - January 1990

Education

Postdoc

Dartmouth College

January 1997 - January 2000

PhD

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville - United States

January 1990 - January 1997

BS

University of Arkansas

September 1982 - May 1987

Certifications

• American Society of Inventors

  ASI

  January 2018 - Present

• Certified Six Sigma Blackbelt

  American Society for Quality

  January 2000 - January 2002

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Phillip Stafford, Roberto Moretto, Andrew Elliott, Jian Zhang, Hiroyuki Arai, Marco Maria Germani, Veronica Conca, Joanne Xiu, Matthew Oberley, Jim Abraham, et al.(2022). Homologous Recombination Deficiency Alterations in Colorectal Cancer: Clinical, Molecular, and Prognostic Implications . JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Oxford University Press ({OUP})

Phillip Stafford, Wenyi Luo, Todd M. Stevens, Markku Miettinen, Zoran Gatalica, Semir Vranic (2021). NUTM1-Rearranged Neoplasms: A Heterogeneous Group of Primitive Tumors with Expanding Spectrum of Histology and Molecular Alterations: An Updated Review . Current Oncology.

Phillip Stafford, Jim Abraham, Amy B. Heimberger, John Marshall, Elisabeth Heath, Joseph Drabick, Anthony Helmstetter, Joanne Xiu, Daniel Magee, Chadi Nabhan, et al.(2021). Machine learning analysis using 77,044 genomic and transcriptomic profiles to accurately predict tumor type . Translational Oncology. 14. (3). p. 101016. Elsevier {BV}

Phillip Stafford, Guangming Zhong, Stephen Albert Johnston, Orhun H. Kantarci, Ameneh Zare-Shahabadi, Arthur Warrington, Moses Rodriguez (2020). Antibody characterization using immunosignatures . PLOS ONE.

Phillip Stafford, Lu Wang, Kurt Whittemore, Stephen Albert Johnston (2019). Author Correction: Entropy is a Simple Measure of the Antibody Profile and is an Indicator of Health Status: A Proof of Concept . Scientific Reports.

Phillip Stafford, Lu Wang, Kurt Whittemore, Stephen Albert Johnston (2017). Entropy is a Simple Measure of the Antibody Profile and is an Indicator of Health Status: A Proof of Concept . Scientific Reports.

Phillip Stafford, Stephen Albert Johnston, Valeriy Domenyuk, Nidhi Gupta, Milene Tavares Batista, John C. Lainson, Zhan-Gong Zhao, Joel F. Lusk, Andrey Loskutov, Zbigniew Cichacz, et al. (2017). A Simple Platform for the Rapid Development of Antimicrobials . Scientific Reports.

Phillip Stafford, Daniel Wrapp, Stephen Albert Johnston(2016). General Assessment of Humoral Activity in Healthy Humans . Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 15. (5). p. 1610--1621. American Society for Biochemistry {\&} Molecular Biology ({ASBMB})

Phillip Stafford, Krupa Arun Navalkar, Stephan Albert Johnston(2015). Peptide based diagnostics: Are random-sequence peptides more useful than tiling proteome sequences? . Journal of Immunological Methods. 417. p. 10--21. Elsevier {BV}

Sykes, Kathryn F. and Legutki, Joseph B. and Stafford, Phillip(2013). Immunosignaturing: a critical review . Trends in Biotechnology. 31. (1). p. 45-51. Elsevier

Stafford, Phillip and Johnston, Stephen(2011). Microarray technology displays the complexities of the humoral immune response . Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics. 11. (1). p. 5-8. Informa Healthcare (Expert Reviews, LTD)

Yang, Yan and Stafford, Phillip and Kim, YoonJoo(2011). Segmentation and intensity estimation for microarray images with saturated pixels . BMC Bioinformatics. 12. (1). p. 462. Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.)

Brown, Justin R and Stafford, Phillip and Johnston, Stephen A and Dinu, Valentin(2011). Statistical methods for analyzing immunosignatures . BMC Bioinformatics. 12. (1). p. 349. Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.)

Legutki, Joseph Barten and Magee, D. Mitchell and Stafford, Phillip and Johnston, Stephen Albert(2010). A general method for characterization of humoral immunity induced by a vaccine or infection . Vaccine. 28. (28). p. 4529-4537. Elsevier

Stomel, Joshua M. and Wilson, James W. and León, Megan A. and Stafford, Phillip and Chaput, John C.(2009). A Man-Made ATP-Binding Protein Evolved Independent of Nature Causes Abnormal Growth in Bacterial Cells . PLoS ONE. 4. (10). p. e7385. Public Library of Science

Daudin, J.J.(2008). Methods in Microarray Normalization. * Edited by Phillip Stafford . Briefings in Bioinformatics. 9. (6). p. 545-546. Oxford University Press

OTHER

Stafford, Phillip and Lee, HoJoon(2010). Biological Data Centres . Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)

Stafford, Phillip and Tak, Younghee(2008). Biological Interpretation for Microarray Normalization Selection . 151-172CRC Press

Stafford, Phillip(2001). Biological Data Centres . Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)

BOOK

(2008). Methods in Microarray Normalization . CRC Press