Tracey Baas

About

Biomedical scientist, writer, and connector

Employment

• The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Senior Science Writer
  2025 - Present
• The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Technical Writer
  2024 - 2025
• Texas Biomedical Research Institute Intellectual Property Manager
  2021 - 2024
• The University of Texas at San Antonio Assistant Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Success
  2020 - 2021
• University of Rochester Medical Center Assistant Professor
  2015 - 2020
• University of Rochester Medical Center Executive Director of Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (URBEST)
  2014 - 2015
• Springer Nature (United States) Senior Science Editor
  2010 - 2014
• Springer Nature (United States) Associate Science Editor
  2007 - 2010
• University of Washington Research Scientist/Engineer IV
  2003 - 2007

Education

• University of Washington PhD
  1994 - 2000
• University of Wisconsin–Madison Bachelors in Science
  1989 - 1992

Projects & Funding

• URBEST: The University of Rochester BEST Training Program Office of the Director
  2014 - 2021
• Development of an Optimal cDNA Array National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  2001 - 2002
• Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer Research National Institutes of Health
  1998 - 1999

Publications (115)

• CoDe: a web-based tool for codon deoptimization
  Divya Sharma, Tracey Baas, Aitor Nogales +2 more
  Bioinformatics Advances 2023 DOI: 10.1093/bioadv/vbac102
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• A cross-institutional analysis of the effects of broadening trainee professional development on research productivity
  Plos Biology 2021 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000956
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• Leadership and management for scientists
  Best Implementing Career Development Activities for Biomedical Research Trainees 2020 DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-820759-8.00006-1
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• Leadership and management for scientists
  BEST 2020 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-820759-8.00006-1
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• Measuring effects of trainee professional development on research productivity: A cross-institutional meta-analysis
  Biorxiv 2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.09.28.316422
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• Faculty perceptions and knowledge of career development of trainees in biomedical science: What do we (think we) know?
  Plos One 2019 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210189
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• Bad blood
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.1062
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• A big heart
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.576
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• Adipsin meets β cells
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.883
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• Catastrophic vacuolization
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.391
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• Collateral tumor damage
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.694
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• Getting researchers off the grant treadmill
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.972
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• Insights into ependymoma
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.334
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• Interrupting Ebola
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.1088
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• Keys to the CAR
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.725
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• Light it up
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.1
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• Managing meningitis
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.727
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• Meeting of the minds
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.1003
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• Micromanaging the microenvironment
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.162
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• Neo enough in glioma?
  Science-Business eXchange 2014 DOI: 10.1038/scibx.2014.851
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