Faculty Profile

Alex Tsoi

Lam C. Tsoi (Alex), PhD

  • Associate Professor Department of Dermatology
  • Gilbert S. Omenn Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics
  • Research Associate Professor
  • Mary H Weiser Food Allergy Center
  • Department of Biostatistics University of Michigan

Email: alextsoi@umich.edu; alextsoi@med.umich.edu 
Tel: (734) 764-7069

Alex Lam C Tsoi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Dermatology, with joint appointments in the Gilbert S. Omenn Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, the Mary H Weiser Food Allergy Center, and the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan. Dr. Tsoi completed his PhD in biomedical science at the Medical University of South Carolina. His PhD work focused on developing data integration approaches to enhance prioritization and interpretation of high throughput experimental results. Dr. Tsoi then worked as a research fellow in the Center for Statistical Genetics from the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan. He has been working on a variety of genetics and genomics projects for psoriasis. Dr. Tsoi has strong interests in investigating the pathology and genetic architecture of complex cutaneous disorders using systems biology approaches.

  • PhD Biomedical Science (Bioinformatics), Medical University of South Carolina
  • MS Biomedical Science (Bioinformatics), Medical University of South Carolina
  • BS Biology, minor in Mathematics, College of Charleston

My research centers on identifying genetic and genomic determinants that shape the molecular and clinical heterogeneity of complex inflammatory skin diseases. My lab has been focusing our studies on psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and prurigo nodularis

Email: alextsoi@umich.edu; alextsoi@med.umich.edu 
Tel: (734) 764-7069

Areas of Expertise: Biostatistics