Eugene Kolker is Chief Data Officer at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Head of the Bioinformatics & High-throughput Analysis Laboratory at Seattle Children’s Research Institute.
In 2001 he co-founded OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology and serves as its Editor-in-Chief. In 2011 Eugene co-founded DELSA Global (Data-Enabled Life Sciences Alliance International) a not-for-profit organization and serves as its President. Dr. Kolker has more than 25 years of transdisciplinary experience in data analysis, integration and dissemination, predictive analytics, software and algorithm development, molecular cellular biology, statistics, proteomics, and informatics. Eugene is also affiliated with the Departments of Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education and Pediatrics at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research is currently supported by NSF, NIH, the McMillen Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.