The RADx-rad Discoveries and Data Coordinating Center (DCC) is a partnership of the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego), University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), and Yale University that brings together informatics/data scientists and infectious diseases specialists to facilitate data collection, harmonization, and sharing, as well as to provide standardized viral samples and testing protocols to support RADx-rad awardees. Our goal is to support awardees in the development, evaluation and pathway to approval for novel diagnostics to assure rapid and scalable impact in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
About
Principal Investigators
Yale University
Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD PhD
Biomedical Informatics and Data Sciences
UC SAN DIEGO
Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, MD PhD
Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
Yale University
Hua Xu, PhD
Biomedical Informatics and Data Sciences
NIH Team
Program Officer
- Yanli Wang, PhD
Project Scientists
- Marie Gallagher, BS
- Dina Demner-Fushman, MD PhD
- Xincheng (Ted) Zheng, MD, PhD
- Zheng Anthony Kirilusha, PhD
Administration Core
The administration core will be responsible for all logistics and communications for the Consortium. In addition, it will facilitate all Data Sharing and Data Use Agreements necessary for collecting as well as distributing data generated by the Consortium.
Core Director: Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD PhD, PI
Yale University
Biomedical Informatics and Data Sciences
- Pritham Ram, Program Manager
UC San Diego
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health
- Cinnamon Bloss, PhD, Associate Professor
- Camille Nebeker, EdD MS, Associate Professor
UCSD Health Department of Biomedical Informatics
- Melissa Aquino, Research Coordinator
- Erin L. Bailey, MSW, Consortium Program Manager
Data Core
The Data Core will develop tools and provide services to assist awardees with data collection (e.g., the use of common data elements – CDEs), data harmonization (e.g., mappings of study variables to standards), and data sharing (e.g., secure hosting of data).
Core Director: Hua Xu, PhD, PI
UTHealth
School of Biomedical Informatics
- Elmer Bernstam, MD MS, Professor
- Jingcheng Du, PhD, Assistant Professor
- Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD, Professor
- Kirk Roberts, PhD, Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
- Shiqiang Tao, PhD, Assistant Professor
- GQ Zhang, PhD, Professor
- Xiaojin Li, PhD, Assistant Professor
UC San Diego
San Diego Supercomputer Center
- Peter Rose, PhD, Project Scientist
- Ilya Zaslavsky, PhD, Research Scientist
UCSD Health Department of Biomedical Informatics
- Tsung-Ting Kuo, PhD, Assistant Professor
Discovery and Diagnostics Core
The Diagnostics Core will support awardees to produce high quality, usable and effective tests. The core will provide expert consultation, best practices, viral standards with variants and non-coronaviruses, and assist with vendors, purchasing and regulatory issues. The core will provide expert consultation and through web-based Question & Answer tools and respond to awardee requests and other services through the resource portal.
Core Director: Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, MD PhD, PI
UC San Diego Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health
- Aaron Carlin, MD PhD, Assistant Professor
- Robert T Schooley, MD, Professor and Division Chief
- Davey Smith, MD, Division Chief
UC San Diego Department of Pathology
- David Pride, MD PhD, Professor
San Diego Supercomputer Center (UC San Diego)
- Peter Rose, PhD, Project Scientist
- David Valintine, PhD, Senior Programmer
- Ilya Zavlasky, PhD, Research Scientist
Qualcomm Institute (UC San Diego)
- Alexandra Hubenko, MBA, Program Manager
- Johnny Nguyen, Project Specialist
- Yves Theriault, PhD, Project Management and Strategy Specialist
External Advisory Board
Mike Busch, MD, PhD
Director, Vitalant Research Institute; Professor, Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Gretchen Jackson, MD, PhD
Vice President, Chief Science Officer, IBM Watson Health; Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Barbara Koenig, PhD, RN
Professor, Medical Anthropology and Bioethics, University of California San Francisco
Mike Lochhead, PhD
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder of LightDeck Diagnostics
Genevieve Melton-Meaux, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota
Pilar Ossorio, PhD, JD
Professor, Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Guergana Savova, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP), Boston Children’s Hospital
Martin Were, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, Vanderbilt University