Tanja Davidsen, Ph.D.

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

• Genome-wide Discovery of Somatic Coding and noncoding mutations in pediatric endemic and sporadic Burkitt lymphoma. Blood, 2019.
• The Molecular Landscape of Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia Reveals Recurrent Structural Alterations and Age-specific Mutational Interactions. Nature Medicine, 2018.

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)