Working Groups

Best Practices for Data Sharing
Connecting Life Sciences Research, Healthcare and Public Knowledge

Application: Building Shared Knowledge

- Experts from pharma, academic centers of excellence, clinics, content providers
- Assessing current standards and future outlook
- Approaches to data sharing, obstacles and prejudices
- Implications of publicly shared medical information
- Strategic consent how to achieve maximum knowledge gain

Members (in alphabetical order):

  • Jonas Almeida - MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Jim Beckett - Philips Healthcare
  • Vijay Bulusu - Pfizer
  • Dan Crowther- Sanofi-Aventis
  • Erich Gombocz - IO Informatics
  • Joanne Luciano - Predictive Medicine
  • Scott Marshall - W3C/ Stanford
  • Robin McEntire - Merck
  • Scott Lyon - Thomson-Reuters
  • Susanna-Assunta Sansone - EMBL, Oxford
  • Imran Shah - EPA
  • Robert Stanley - IO Informatics

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Informatics for Personalized Medicine
Connecting Life Sciences Informatics to the point of care

Application: Personalized Medicine

- Experts from informatics, pharma/biotech, academic centers of excellence
- Predictive Biology, Personalized Medicine applications
- Value will feed back into drug discovery

Members (in alphabetical order):

  • Uwe Christians - University of Colorado
  • Jack Collins - NCI-SAIC
  • Daniel Crowther - Sanofi-Aventis
  • Amar Das - Stanford University
  • Herb Fritsche - MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Kathy Gibson - Helio Consulting
  • Erich Gombocz - IO Informatics
  • Bruce McManus - iCapture Center / PROOF
  • David Stanley - Vascular Diagnostic Center Oak Ridge
  • Robert Stanley - IO Informatics

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Semantics in Life Sciences

Semantic Applications for Hypothesis Generation in Translational Research

Application: Biomarker Qualification

- Integrated resources for identification and hypothesis generation
- Faster path to improved multi-marker diagnostics (Target/disease profile building, compound activity discovery and qualification)

Members (in alphabetical order):

  • Jonas Almeida - MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Erich Gombocz - IO Informatics
  • Alan Higgins - Viamet Pharmaceuticals
  • Pat Hurban - CLDA
  • Bruce McManus - iCapture Center
  • Ted Slater - Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Mark Wilkinson - iCapture Center


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Data Sharing

Informatics for Personalized Medicine

Semantics in Life Sciences