Core Members

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Contents 1 Core Members 1.1 Warren Kibbe 1.2 Simon Lin 1.3 Pan Du 1.4 Dong Fu 1.5 Sean Whitaker 1.6 Rhett Sutphin 1.7 Peter Nyberg 1.8 Andrew Winter 1.9 Sharon Gordon 1.10 Edgar Garcia 1.11 Nataliya Shurupova 1.12 John Dzak, III 1.13 Jared Flatow 1.14 Jignesh Patel 1.15 Brian Chamberlain 1.16 Gilbert Feng 1.17 David Yip 1.18 Jeffrey Chen 1.19 Jalpa Patel 1.20 David Were 1.21 Michael Gurley 1.22 Thomas McKibben II 2 Visiting Faculty and Staff 2.1 Kyeong Lee 3 Students and Interns 3.1 Anurag Kondapalli 3.2 Google Scholars 4 Honorary Core Members 4.1 dictyBase Team 4.1.1 Eric Just 4.1.2 Petra Fey 4.1.3 Dr. Pascale Gaudet 4.2 NUgene Team 4.2.1 Jen Allen 4.2.2 Tony Miqueli 4.3 FSM MIS Department 4.3.1 Lorraine Padour 4.3.2 Xiaoyi (Rocky) Xu 5 Previous and Legendary Core Members 5.1 Dr. Moses Hohman 5.2 John Osborne 5.3 Linning Liao 5.4 Jan MacDermid 5.5 Song Zhou 5.6 Qing Cao 5.7 Lihua (Julie) Zhu 5.8 Vijayalakshmi Janakiraman 5.8.1 Sohel Merchant

Core Members

The Core is made up of faculty and staff who are part of The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Center for Genetic Medicine, the Feinberg School of Medicine, the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NU-CATS) and the Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center (NUBIC). The Core is focused on clinical research informatics, high-throughput biology analysis (microarrays, proteomics, next generation sequencing) provided by the Consulting Core, headed by Dr. Simon Lin.

Warren Kibbe

Warren Kibbe, Ph.D. is the director of the Core.

Simon Lin

Simon Lin, M.D. is an Associate Director of the Core and the director of the Bioinformatics Consulting Core.

Pan Du

Pan Du, Ph.D., is the Research Assistant Professor and a member of the Consulting Core. The major responsibility includes microarray and proteomics consulting and data analysis.

Dong Fu

Dong Fu, M.S. is the Core's System Administrator, an expert in high performance computing, and is involved in nearly all software adoption, systems testing, and production configuration for the core. He has also been heavily involved in caBIG™ adoption and system configuration, including caGrid, caArray, and works with the Patient Study Calendar and cancer Adverse Event Reporting System (caAERS) teams to run their development, testing and production environments. Dong runs the Core's clusters, file servers, and wikis, among other duties.

Sean Whitaker

Sean Whitaker, M.A., is the Core's security analyst and project manager for our caBIG™ developer projects - the Patient Study Calendar and cancer Adverse Event Reporting System (caAERS).

Rhett Sutphin

Rhett Sutphin, M.S., is the Systems Development Architect for the Core and the Lead Programmer for our caBIG™ developer projects - the Patient Study Calendar and cancer Adverse Event Reporting System (caAERS).

Peter Nyberg

Peter Nyberg, M.S., is the Lead Programmer for NOTIS, the clinical trial management system developed, maintained and operated by the Core. He is in charge of the project that will extend NOTIS to work with caBIG™ modules as well as the project to extend NOTIS to meet the needs of the clinical research community at Northwestern.

Andrew Winter

Andrew Winter is the Data Architect for the Core, and he is currently serving as the Chief Data Architect for the Northwestern clinical Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). Andrew is the co-founder of NOTIS, and the architect of NOTIS as well as other systems developed in the Core.

Sharon Gordon

Sharon Gordon, M.S.E.E., is the Lead Analyst and Programmer for the Cancer Center's research support and financial systems.

Edgar Garcia

Edgar Garcia is the Programmer Analyst for CoreFac, the Core developed, maintained and operated system for providing Northwestern Cores with web-based administrative and ordering tools.

Nataliya Shurupova

Nataliya Shurupova is a Programmer Analyst in the Core who is working on the caBIG™ Patient Study Calendar development project.

John Dzak, III

John Dzak, III, is a Programmer Analyst in the Core who is working on the caBIG™ Patient Study Calendar development project.

Jared Flatow

Jared Flatow is a Systems Analyst/Programmer and a member of the Consulting group.

Jignesh Patel

Brian Chamberlain

Gilbert Feng

David Yip

Jeffrey Chen

Jalpa Patel

David Were

Michael Gurley

Thomas McKibben II

Thomas McKibben II, Ph.D. is the Core Informatics Manager for the Clinical Research Unit (CRU, formerly known as the GCRC).

Visiting Faculty and Staff

Kyeong Lee

Kyeong Lee, Ph.D., is a visiting faculty member from the Department of Statistics at Kyungpook National University in Daegu, Korea. Dr. Lee is collaborating with Dr. Lin on the application of hierarchical Bayesian models to mass spec data (proteomics). They are developing a hierarchical Bayesian model to integrate several analysis steps into a single model, steps that include peak finding, isotope effect removal, and ICAT quantification.

Students and Interns

Anurag Kondapalli

Anurag Kondapalli is a summer student with us. This is his second summer with us, and he has worked on the application of Web 2.0 technologies in several existing projects, in particular the mining of data from the National Death Index for our clinical research registries.

Google Scholars

We are very pleased to be mentors for six Google Scholars during the summer of 2007. The Google Summer of Code page, as well as a page of our projects are available, and as the projects themselves result in finished code we will be posting those URLs as well.

Check out the g3p, one of our completed GSoC 2007 projects.

Honorary Core Members

People with other primary affiliations but who work with the Core and are great colleagues, guides, and contributors to the activities of the Core.

dictyBase Team

Eric Just

Petra Fey

Dr. Pascale Gaudet

NUgene Team

Jen Allen

Tony Miqueli

FSM MIS Department

Lorraine Padour

Xiaoyi (Rocky) Xu

Previous and Legendary Core Members

Dr. Moses Hohman

John Osborne

Linning Liao

Jan MacDermid

Song Zhou

Qing Cao

Lihua (Julie) Zhu

Julie Zhu, Ph.D. was an Associate Director of the Core and the head of the Clinical Informatics Group.

Vijayalakshmi Janakiraman

Vijayalakshmi Janakiraman was a Programmer Analyst in the Clinical Informatics group.

Sohel Merchant

Sohel Merchant was a bioinformatics software engineer for dictyBase