Her research interests focus in the area of knowledge discovery, specifically through NLP and knowledge integration. Her lab has produced top-performing systems such as BANNER, for gene and disease entity recognition and ADRMine, for automated extraction of adverse drug reactions from social media data. She served as a member of the National Library of Medicine Standing Review Committee (BLIRC) from 2009 through 2013. Email: gragon@pennmedicine.upenn.edu