PEOPLE

Collaborations are central to NCIBI efforts. NCIBI partners and cross-disciplinary teams work together to advance biomedicine and enhance the national impacts of NCIBI's innovations.

Computer scientists on our teams specialize in systems and database architectures, natural language processing, interactive visualizations, software development, and user interfaces. They work side-by-side with bioinformatics experts, statisticians, life science specialists, and clinical researchers in our driving biology projects. Together with user experience and usability testing experts in every phase of development, these cross-functional collaborations assure that systems are user-centered.

NCIBI teams aim for systems that facilitate the needs and practices of partnering scientific communities and augment biomedical exploratory research. Turning innovations into practice depends on our additional specialists skilled in dissemination, instruction, web development, new media, graphic arts, and state-of-the-art infrastructure and communications capacities.

Featured Profile for STANFORD-NCIBI Collaborations

Nigam Shah, MD, PhD

Dr. Nigam Shah is a Research Scientist at Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. His research interests include the “use of bio-ontologies for organizing biomedical information to make it actionable”. “Specifically, I work on developing ontology based approaches to integrate diverse information types available for biological systems. Currently, we are drowning in information but thirsty for knowledge; ontologies might help fix that.” More