Eugene Douglass

Eugene Douglass is an Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences whose lab uses data science and artificial intelligence to match treatments to patients in human and veterinary contexts. Combining laboratory experiments, large clinical datasets, and machine learning, his team studies why patients respond differently to therapies and develops predictive tools to inform care. Collaborations include the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine and Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute, with studies on real patient and animal tumor samples to accelerate translation.

Douglass contributes to the Precision One Health Initiative at UGA and developed a Biomedical Data Science course that equips students—regardless of prior coding experience—with practical skills through projects using real biomedical data. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from Yale University and a B.A. in Physical Chemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Areas of expertise include designing small-molecule drugs guided by biological mechanisms; his lab integrates organic chemistry, biochemistry, and computational biology to address multidrug resistance in cancer and to build clinical diagnostics that align therapies with individual patients.