CCTS Core Informatics Team

Jake Y. Chen, PhD
Chief Bioinformatics Officer
Associate Director, Informatics Institute
Professor of Genetics, UAB
205-996-0738

James J. Cimino, MD
Director
Informatics Institute, UAB
205-996-1958

Chindo Hicks, PhD
Professor of Genetics
Director, Bioinformatics and Genomics Program
Director, Bioinformatics and Data Science Service Center
LSUHSC
504-568-2657

Elliot J. Lefkowitz, PhD
Director
Professor of Microbiology, UAB
205-934-1946

Matthew Wyatt, MSHI
Assistant Director
Informatics Institute, UAB
205-934-0660
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dongquan Chen, PhD
Associate Professor
Preventative Medicine

David K. Crossman, PhD
Instructor

Don Dempsey, MS
Programmer

Geoff Gordon, MSEE
Co-Director

Curtis Hendrickson
Research Associate

Dale Johnson, MS
Senior System Analyst

John Osborne, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science,

Liam Van Der Pol, MS
Bioinformatician III

James H. Willig, MD, MSPH
Co-Director
Auburn University

Eric Peatman, PhD
Associate Professor
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

Devin Absher, PhD
Investigator
256-327-0400
Louisana State University Health Sciences Center

Judy Crabtree, PhD
Assistant Professor, Genetics
Co-Leader, Genomics Core

Zhide Fang, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics
Interim Director of Biostatistics Program
School of Public Health

Lucio Miele, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine
Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center

Christopher Taylor, PhD
Associate Professor, Microbiology-Immunology
Co-Leader, Genomics Core

Jovanny Zabaleta, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor, Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center
Leader, Stanley Scott Cancer Center Translational Genomics Core
Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Sujoy Ghosh, PhD
Associate Professor Adjunct

Ron Horswell, PhD
Associate Professor
Health Care Quality Improvement

William Johnson, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics
Director, Biostatistics Core

Michael Salbaum, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Pennington Biomedical Genomics Core
Tulane University

Melody Baddoo
Senior Research Scientist
Cancer Crusaders Next Generation Sequence Analysis Core

Erik Flemington, PhD
Zimmerman Professor, Cancer Research
Program Director, Cancer Genetics
Director, Cancer Bioinformatics Core

Michelle Lacey, PhD
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Jian Li, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Yao-Zhong Liu, PhD
Associate Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
SPH and Tropical Medicine

Sudesh Srivastav, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
University of South Alabama

Dan Roach, MD
Acting Director
Center for Strategic Health Innovation