Heather Creasy

Biomedical Informatics Project Manager

  • Current Role

    Current Role

    As a CBIIT biomedical informatics project manager, I ensure that data across the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) adheres to the FAIR guiding principles for scientific data management. I serve as federal liaison to the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and Research Data Alliance international initiatives and work with the CBIIT Data Standards Services working group to develop standards to enable interoperability across CRDC data repositories. I also support outreach and training activities related to the CRDC.

  • Projects

    Projects

    Stylized image of a cloud showing repositories of data represented by circles with small icons hovering over top. The repositories include canine, imaging, genomic, and other types of data.

    NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC)

    Connects researchers with data sets and tools to analyze large- scale cancer research data in the cloud.
  • Publications

    Publications

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    Featured Publications

    Making Common Fund Data More Findable: Catalyzing a Data Ecosystem. GigaScience, 2022.

  • Background

    Background

    Education

    • M.S., Molecular Biology, Boston College
    • B.S., Biology, Providence College

    Previous Work

    • Lead Bioinformatics Analyst, Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), University of Maryland School of Medicine
    • Bioinformatics Analyst, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
    • Senior Research Technician, Division of Molecular Genetics, Boston University School of Medicine