Before joining University of Michigan, she rapidly rose to tenure (Dec. 2012 to Jun. 2017) at University of Hawaii Cancer Center, and has become a nationally recognizable translational bioinformatics scientist leading a multidisciplinary team of computational and experimental human genomics. Garmire has won numerous competitive federal grant awards of over 7.8 million dollars as the PI, including NIH/NIGMS P20 COBRE (2014-2018, Project Leader), NIH/BD2K K01 award (2014-2019), and two concurrent NIH R01 grant awards from NICHD (2016-2021) and NLM (2016-2020).