Kenneth Buetow is the director of the National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology. He is also an intramural researcher at NCI, working on genomics. In 2004, Buetow and colleagues launched the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) to help researchers manage and integrate the ever-growing dataset of clinical, genomic, imaging, pathological, and proteomic observations (Click here to read about it ). caBIG now involves 1000 people, from 80 institutions, employing 40 software tools to incorporate all types of research information. "What's been rewarding is how enthusiastically received the [tool] has been by the broader biomedical community," he says.
Michael Stebbins has worked as a legislative fellow in the US Senate, a public policy fellow at the NHGRI, and a senior editor at Nature Genetics. Currently he is the director of biology policy for the Federation of American Scientists and the president of the Scientists and Engineers for ...
