Lombardi Names First Director of Clinical Research Informatics
Lombardi Names First Director of Clinical Research Informatics
Oct-9-08 01:49 pm
Washington, DC -- Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has named Subha Madhavan, MS, PhD, as the first director of clinical research informatics and research assistant professor of oncology. Madhavan’s work occurs at the intersection of biomedical science and informatics. At Lombardi, she will coordinate informatics-related activities, bringing together existing databases and creating new infrastructure and analytic tools to establish the Georgetown Database of Cancer (G-DOC).
The G-DOC will be designed to marry clinical information from patients in clinical trials with molecular characteristics of their cancer. This effort will define the molecular features that underlie prognosis and responsiveness to therapy in patients, providing a basis for personalized medicine and a tool for target discovery and drug development.
Prior to joining Lombardi, Madhavan served as associate director at the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and IT where she led the development of several bioinformatics programs including the platform supporting the REMBRANDT project, which received the Service to America Medal in 2005. She also directed the development of Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid’s (caBIG) Cancer Molecular Analysis portal at NCI, which is the first web portal for integrating and analyzing the Cancer Genome Atlas datasets.
Madhavan holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the Uniformed Services University for Health Sciences as part of an Indo-US graduate collaborative program as well as a master’s degree in computer information systems from the University of Maryland.
About Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Georgetown University Medical Center and Georgetown University Hospital, seeks to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer through innovative basic and clinical research, patient care, community education and outreach, and the training of cancer specialists of the future. Lombardi is one of only 41 comprehensive cancer centers in the nation, as designated by the National Cancer Institute, and the only one in the Washington, DC, area. For more information, go to http://lombardi.georgetown.edu.
About Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through our partnership with MedStar Health). Our mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Health Studies, both nationally ranked, the world-renowned Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO), home to 60 percent of the university’s sponsored research funding.
The G-DOC will be designed to marry clinical information from patients in clinical trials with molecular characteristics of their cancer. This effort will define the molecular features that underlie prognosis and responsiveness to therapy in patients, providing a basis for personalized medicine and a tool for target discovery and drug development.
Prior to joining Lombardi, Madhavan served as associate director at the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and IT where she led the development of several bioinformatics programs including the platform supporting the REMBRANDT project, which received the Service to America Medal in 2005. She also directed the development of Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid’s (caBIG) Cancer Molecular Analysis portal at NCI, which is the first web portal for integrating and analyzing the Cancer Genome Atlas datasets.
Madhavan holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the Uniformed Services University for Health Sciences as part of an Indo-US graduate collaborative program as well as a master’s degree in computer information systems from the University of Maryland.
About Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Georgetown University Medical Center and Georgetown University Hospital, seeks to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer through innovative basic and clinical research, patient care, community education and outreach, and the training of cancer specialists of the future. Lombardi is one of only 41 comprehensive cancer centers in the nation, as designated by the National Cancer Institute, and the only one in the Washington, DC, area. For more information, go to http://lombardi.georgetown.edu.
About Georgetown University Medical Center
Georgetown University Medical Center is an internationally recognized academic medical center with a three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through our partnership with MedStar Health). Our mission is carried out with a strong emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- or "care of the whole person." The Medical Center includes the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Health Studies, both nationally ranked, the world-renowned Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization (BGRO), home to 60 percent of the university’s sponsored research funding.
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