Tony Kerlavage, Ph.D.
CBIIT Director
- Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology
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Current Role
Current Role
As the director of CBIIT, I am responsible for advancing open data, open software, and open science for NCI. Alongside my peers who make up CBIIT’s Offices and Programs—the Office of the CIO, the Office of Data Sharing, the Informatics and Data Science Program, and the Office of the Director—I continue to engage in ground-breaking efforts in data science, including the Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) and the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI).
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Projects
Projects
Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI)
Develops means to collect and share childhood cancer data to learn from every child with cancer.
NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC)
Connects researchers with data sets and tools to analyze large- scale cancer research data in the cloud.
NCI-DOE Collaborations
Uses advanced computation, predictive models, AI/ML to accelerate precision oncology.
NIH Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative
Collaborates with NIH partners to use commercial cloud services that modernize biomedical research. -
Publications
Publications
Featured Publications
Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers: Scientific Drivers for Informatics, Data Science, and Care in Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer. JCO Clinical Cancer Information, 2021.
The Potential of AI in Cancer Care and Research. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta—Reviews on Cancer, 2021.
Leveraging the Health Information Technology Infrastructure to Advance Federal Research Priorities. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2020.
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In the News
In the News
Interested in a data science fellowship? Whether you’re considering data science as a career, you’re a new graduate, or you’ve been working in academia or industry for many years, NCI has fellowship opportunities to help you grow your career.CBIIT Director, Dr. Tony Kerlavage, along with NCI staff and a host of experts in childhood cancer research, recently published an article, “Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers (CI4CC): Scientific Drivers for Informatics, Data Science, and Care in Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer,” in JCO Cancer Clinical Informatics. The article summarizes the Fall 2020 CI4CC Symposium and showcases the scope of initiatives underway to address childhood cancer, with a particular emphasis on how data science and informatics are helping to support these initiatives.CBIIT Director Dr. Tony Kerlavage loves data. He also loves to solve puzzles. In this blog, Dr. Kerlavage describes how advances in data and technology are helping us find solutions to some of today’s most pressing cancer-related questions. According to Dr. Kerlavage, there’s no problem too hard to solve and no question that we shouldn’t bother asking. -
Background
Background
Education
- Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, San Diego
- M.S., Chemistry, University of California, San Diego
- B.S., Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University
Previous Work
- Senior Director of Global Service Development, Applied Biosystems and Life Technologies
- Senior Director, Online Information Business, Celera Genomics
Recent Awards
- 2021 NCI Director’s Award, for work with the Safer-COVID Application Development Team
- 2021 NCI Director’s Award, for work with the COVID-19 Exposure Notification System Team
- 2020 NCI Director’s Award, for work with the COVID-19 Pandemic Infrastructure and Administrative Team
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My Team
My Team