NCI seeking Associate Director for Informatics & Data Science, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT)

Responsibilities:

The Associate Director, CBIIT serves as the principal advisor to the CBIIT Director and NCI senior leadership on ensuring the required clinical and discovery informatics infrastructure needs are met; promoting and implementing biomedical informatics solutions, information technologies, and analytics activities; and managing major data sharing and integration initiatives.

The Associate Director has the following responsibilities:

• leads diverse, highly complex scientific programs involving bioinformatics and data science;
• oversees three highly complex informatics and data science programs that:

1. support the NCI’s clinical trials and clinical trials reporting, precision medicine, imaging informatics, semantic infrastructure, and translational research;
2. develop and manage the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons, providing secure access to data generated by NCI-funded programs and;
3. provide advanced computational genomics data analysis, scientific consultation, and training to support intramural and extramural NCI scientific communities;

• supervises significant resources and management of scientific contracts involving clinical and translational research informatics and data science;
• serves as the primary advisor on the research and development of informatics and data science technologies and products that support critical cancer and biomedical research programs of the Institute

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