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Tanja Davidsen

Tanja Davidsen, Ph.D.

Branch Chief
Data Ecosystems Branch
Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology
(240) 276-5301
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tanja.davidsen@nih.gov

Projects

As the chief of the Data Ecosystems Branch, I lead my team in developing the Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC), a scalable data science infrastructure for managing and sharing high volumes of data. As a biomedical informatics specialist, my research interests focus on cancer, infectious diseases, biological databases, cloud applications, and large-scale genomic analysis.

Publications

Background

Education

  • Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine
  • B.S., Biology and Computer Science, The College of William & Mary

Previous Work

  • Assistant Professor, J. Craig Venter Institute
  • Bioinformatics Manager, J. Craig Venter Institute
  • Bioinformatics Engineer, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)

Recent Awards

  • 2017 NIH Director’s Award (group award in collaboration with Genomic Data Commons Project 
    Team)
  • 2015 NIH Director’s Award (in collaboration with Therapeutically Applicable Research to 
    Generate Effective Treatment [TARGET] Team)
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