Tim Clark

Tim Clark MSc

Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Informatics at MIND

Tim Clark is Director of Informatics at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is a Core Member of the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC), an interdisciplinary R&D center for scientific computing, which he co-founded. He served as IIC Research Director in 2006-7. He is a founding Editorial Board member of the journal Briefings in Bioinformatics (Oxford University Press) and an Investigator at the Massachusetts Alzheimer Disease Research Center.

Tim was one of the early developers of NCBI GenBank, and helped develop the prototype versions of PubMed - after moving into bioinformatics from a previous career in telecommunications systems, where he worked for both MCI and Intelsat.

In 1994 he founded the program in Informatics at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, where he was Vice President of Informatics. From 2002-2003 he chaired the consortium responsible for developing the LSID interoperability specification, which his group at Millennium developed in collaboration with IBM, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the European Bioinformatics Institute and Avaki Technologies. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. His principal research interests are in software interoperability, neuroinformatics, and semantic models of theory and evidence in biomedical research.

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