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Blog from April, 2014
SYNOPSIS: With over one million new biomedical publications indexed in PubMed every year, new biological knowledge is being generated at a breakneck pace. However, the scientific community’s ability to fully utilize that knowledge has not kept pace with the rate of knowledge generation. Developing better tools to efficiently query, summarize, and analyze the sum total of biomedical knowledge is a pressing challenge for the research community.
"Crowdsourcing" is one mechanism for addressing massive challenges by harnessing the collective efforts of large communities. Scientists and biologists are increasingly applying crowdsourcing toward research problems. In this presentation, Dr. Su will present three such efforts that focus on both organizing and generating new biological knowledge on the function of human genes.
BIO:
Andrew Su is an Associate Professor at the Scripps Research Institute in the Departments of Molecular and Experimental Medicine and Integrative Structural and Computational Biology. His research focuses on applying the tools of bioinformatics, statistics, crowdsourcing, and computer science to biomedical discovery. Prior to joining Scripps in July 2011, he was the Associate Director of Bioinformatics at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation in San Diego, California. He also serves as the Gene Wiki Editor at the journal Gene and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Gene Ontology Consortium. Dr. Su received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Scripps Research Institute and a B.A. in Chemistry, Computing and Information Systems, and Integrated Science from Northwestern University.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Crowdsourcing Biology: The Gene Wiki, BioGPS, and Gene Games
Speaker: Andrew Su, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Scripps Research Institute
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM EDT
You are invited to listen to Dr. Su's presentation in Room 2W908 in the NCI Shady Grove Building on Medical Center Drive or via WebEx.
Presentation: A screen cast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event here on the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series YouTube Playlist 
. The presentation slides are also attached.
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS:This presentation will provide an overview of how CDER’s Computational Science Center (CSC) is integrating bioinformatics and analytics into the regulatory review environment. There are a number of components that work together to enable reviewers to utilize analytical tools to assist them in answering regulatory review questions and making decisions. These components include guidance and rule development, submission and use of standardized data, data validation, analytical tools that support data exploration from the reviewer perspective, and repositories to allow data integration. The CSC is a program that provides services to CDER, and review divisions to implement the components and facilitate analytical tool skill development.
BIO:
Dr. Lilliam Rosario is the Director of the Office of Computational Science (OCS) in the Office of Translational Sciences (OTS), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The OCS leads and directly supports the modernization of CDER’s scientific computing capabilities by providing services across the spectrum of innovation, supporting the submission and use of high-quality data, and providing access to high-end analytical tools and training, enabling the overall regulatory review process. Dr. Rosario has served as associate director in the FDA’s Office of Science and Innovation, Office of the Chief Scientist. She has also worked in the Office of New Drugs in FDA’s CDER. Dr. Rosario holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Rutgers University and a B.A. in chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Modernizing the Review Process Through Innovation
Speaker: Lilliam Rosario, Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT
You are invited to listen to Dr. Rosario's presentation in Room 2W908 in the NCI Shady Grove Building on Medical Center Drive or via WebEx.
Presentation: A screen cast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event here on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI’s CBIIT Speaker Series YouTube Playlist . The presentation slides are also attached.
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS: Data drive research, but many studies use inefficient legacy technologies to manage their data. Better tools now exist for collecting, storing, using, and sharing data. For a large-scale new biobanking project within the prospective California Teachers Study cohort, we leveraged cloud computing and a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to build a novel data management system that provides real-time, on-demand access to all data, eliminates data silos, and reduces data management costs. We use mobile phones and tablets to ensure study-wide protocol compliance, guarantee high-quality data entry, and increase staff productivity. This presentation will describe why CRM and cloud computing are good for research and how we implemented our innovative system to achieve these results. We encourage other investigators to consider similar approaches and will discuss lessons learned from our experience.
BIO:
James V. Lacey, Jr., earned his M.P.H. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor. From 1998 to 2009, while at the NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), he led and collaborated on a wide range of epidemiologic research studies. In 2009, he joined the Department of Population Sciences at City of Hope, a NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Lacey’s research primarily focuses on the clinical epidemiology of female reproductive cancers.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Faster, Safer, Cheaper, Better: How CRM and Cloud Computing Can Help Studies Collect, Store, Use, and Share Data
Speaker: James Lacey, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Cancer Etiology Department of Population Sciences, City of Hope
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM EDT
You are invited to listen to Dr. Lacey's presentation in Room 2W908 in the NCI Shady Grove Building on Medical Center Drive or via WebEx.
Presentation: A screen cast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event here on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series YouTube Playlist .
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
