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Dr. Vahan Simonyan has a solid scientific background in varied academic disciplines: MS M.S. in Physical Organic Chemistry, Ph.D. in Quantum Physics and Mathematics, post-doctoral training in Nanotechnology and Quantum Statistical Thermodynamics. After 2001, he switched his expertise to biotechnology and biomedical informatics and currently serves at the FDA as a lead scientist of HIVE, R&D Director of Bioinformatics. Vahan is a prolific author of scientific publications in physics, chemistry, quantum chemistry, nanotechnology, biotechnology, population dynamics, and bioinformatics. Additionally, Dr. Simonyan is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University, where he teaches and develops curriculums for biomedical big data informatics and biostatistics research and development courses. His accomplishments in academic and R&D technology carriers have been complemented with the success of technology leadership roles at NCBI and FDA where he established large-scale and complex, science-heavy R&D infrastructures capable of serving worldwide communities for research and regulatory purposes.

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In 2017, the technology experts Dr. Simonyan (FDA) and Shahram Ebadollahi (IBM) have led a research collaboration between FDA and IBM on testing feasibility of blockchain for healthcare data. The initiative called Healthcare Data Exchange Framework (HDEF) targets the facilitation of healthcare data transactions by creating a an incentive framework for patient ownership of their medical data.

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Time: 11 AM – 12 PM ET

Room: 4E032-034

WebEx:  https://cbiit.webex.com/cbiit/onstage/g.php?MTID=eb378f10e4650f3997daeb3a59bd0fce5e8671dd3fd8f2c2edfe54ea69027c59ca

Event Number:   732 0421 023 730 421 669 

Event Password:  $Peakerseries18

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