Associate Professor
Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, Missouri, United States
Obi Griffith, PhD is Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Director of the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine. Born and raised in Canada, he earned his PhD in Medical Genetics from the University of British Columbia. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at the BC Cancer Agency and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in cancer genomics before joining Washington University as faculty. His NIH funded lab focuses on using open-source, open-access computational biology approaches to address research questions relating to cancer biology and precision oncology. He has served as the President of the Cancer Genomics Consortium, Co-Chair of the Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium, and Steering Committee Member of the Global Alliance for Genomic Health. He has received research awards and honors from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, University of British Columbia, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, British Columbia Cancer Agency, and the US National Academy of Sciences. He has authored 144 peer-reviewed publications with focus on precision medicine, variant interpretation, cancer genomics, sequence analysis, machine learning, and biocuration. He has led the development of a number of popular bioinformatics tools (e.g., CIViC and DGIdb) and provided major contributions to online educational resources for bioinformatics (e.g., rnabio.org, genviz.org, and pmbio.org).
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CIViC: An Open Community Platform For Variant Curation
Saturday, November 18, 2023
2:55 PM - 3:20 PM MST