National Library of Medicine Creating Scientific Director Position
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As part of a reorganization of its intramural research activities, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) has launched a search for a scientific director. The scientific director will oversee a group of 150 scientific personnel, developing new approaches to data science, biomedical informatics, and computational biology.
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In a blog post on the library’s website, director Patti Brennan, R.N., Ph.D., called the move a big step in revving up its intramural research operation.
One of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NLM creates and hosts major digital resources, tools, and services for biomedical and health literature, data, and standards, sending 115 terabytes of data to five million users and receiving 15 terabytes of data from 3,000 users every weekday.
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See Also: Full Text of Blog Post Referenced in Article
See Also: NLM Scientific Director Job Announcement
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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