Yoav Gilad, PhD
Dr. Gilad is leading the development and oversight of a strategic and forward-looking core facility to provide state-of-the-art research-informatics services, expert consultation, and flexible models for support of and/or collaboration with BSD faculty.
Julie Johnson, PhD, MPH, RN
Julie has more than 15 years of clinical and healthcare experience as a nurse, analyst, teaching assistant, research assistant, and clinical program coordinator. As part of the CRDW team, she works directly with stakeholders to translate their research questions into optimized requests for the technical team.
Thorbjörn Axelsson, MS
With more than fifteen years experience in IT for research and higher education, Thorbjörn leads the CRI’s work of operating, expanding, and improving our secure computing infrastructure.
Mengjie Chen, PhD
As Faculty Director, Dr. Chen oversees development of all bioinformatics projects, facilitates on-campus team science, and sets overall policy/infrastructure for the Bioinformatics Core Facility.
Brian Furner, MS
Brian leads a team of developers who are responsible for providing custom software solutions to the BSD research community. In addition to building applications from scratch, the applications development team provides maintenance and operational support for several open-source and third-party products, and has expertise in processing and merging data from disparate sources.
Timothy Holper, MS, MA
Tim leads the architecture, development, and operations of the Clinical Research Data Warehouse (CRDW) team, whose primary focus is bringing disparate data sources into the CRDW and making this data available to the researcher community through a standard data request process.
