In the global research community, anticipation is building for thousands of samples that will become available via BioVU in 2024. Our department is providing crucial technical and analytical support to this effort, with assistant professor Quanhu "Tiger" Sheng, senior IT project manager Dean Gibson, and VANGARD director Yu Shyr heading a team that includes cloud computing developers Milad Abbasi and James Grindstaff, statistical genetic analysts Joey Stolze and Marisol Ramirez-Solano, and application developer Hui Wu.
To learn more about the sequencing project, see the November 14 VUMC Reporter article: "Landmark academic-industry partnership harvests human genome 'fruits' for research."