Rachel Karchin

Rachel Karchin is a computational biologist working in computational cancer genomics. She is a professor of biomedical engineering, oncology and computer science at Johns Hopkins University.

Early life and education

Karchin received her BS in computer engineering and her MS and PhD in computer science from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her doctoral thesis, titled "Evaluating Local Structure Alphabets for Protein Structure Prediction" was supervised by Kevin Karplus.

Career and research

From 2003-2006, Karchin was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Andrej Šali at the University of California, San Francisco.

Awards and honours

In 2025, Karchin was named by the International Society for Computational Biology as an ISCB Fellow.