New Brunswick, N.J. – David J. Foran, PhD, chief informatics officer and executive director of biomedical informatics and computational imaging at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has been appointed as a Charter Member for Study Section for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals, and other significant scientific activities, achievements and honors. In this role, Dr. Foran is responsible for providing expert review as to the scientific merit and clinical relevance of grant applications that are submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for funding consideration and making recommendations on these applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board.
Foran’s laboratory is involved in the development of high-throughput, imaging, data-mining and computational tools for classifying malignancies and stratifying biomarker expression signatures from disease onset throughout progression. He has served as the lead investigator for several large-scale inter-institutional research projects in bioinformatics, computational imaging, high-performance computing and integrative diagnostics.
The Long Valley resident also serves as the director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging and co-director of the Histopathology and Imaging Shared Resource at the Cancer Institute and is a professor of pathology, laboratory medicine and radiology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
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