Join NUCATS for an in-person lecture with Dr. Sean Mooney, Director of the Center for Information Technology at NIH.
Dr. Mooney will highlight new biomedical research computing initiatives designed to accelerate discovery, enhance data interoperability, and expand secure, scalable computational resources for the research community. These efforts include advancing high‑performance and cloud‑based infrastructures, strengthening support for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, and fostering collaborative environments that enable scientists across the NIH and beyond to analyze complex biomedical data more efficiently. Together, these initiatives are building the foundation for the next generation of data-driven biomedical research, ensuring that investigators have the tools they need to translate insights into meaningful health outcomes.
About Dr. Sean Mooney
Sean Mooney, PhD
Director of the Center for Information Technology
National Institutes of Health
Dr. Sean Mooney, Ph.D., serves as the Director of the NIH Center for Information Technology and the NIH Associate Director for Information Technology, Cyberinfrastructure and Cybersecurity (AD ITCC). As the Director of CIT, he is responsible for providing leadership, vision, and direction for CIT. This includes overseeing an approximately $400 million portfolio that includes a world-renowned supercomputer that allows researchers to conduct large-scale data analyses; a state-of-the-art network that enables research across NIH and around the world; cloud-based services that give researchers a cost-effective way to access datasets and advanced computational tools and services; and the latest collaboration tools to promote flexibility and productivity.
Before joining CIT, Dr. Mooney served as a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. He also served as Chief Research Information Officer of UW Medicine, Interim Director for the UW Institute for Medical Data Science, Associate Director of the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center, and Director of Informatics for the UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences. Dr. Mooney holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco, a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and he was an American Cancer Society John Peter Hoffman Fellow in the Department of Genetics and Stanford Medical Informatics at Stanford University. Dr. Mooney is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.
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