As NCI deputy director for knowledge science and technique, Warren A. Kibbe, Ph.D., FACMI, serves because the senior advisor to the NCI director for all issues associated to knowledge science. He gives strategic path to the NCI Heart for Bioinformatics and Info Know-how (CBIIT) and manages and oversees all features of knowledge science for the institute.
On this position, Dr. Kibbe gives strategic counsel on the event and implementation of key knowledge science initiatives, together with the NCI Childhood Most cancers Knowledge Initiative, the Most cancers Analysis Knowledge Commons, and the ARPA-H Biomedical Knowledge Cloth Toolbox. He additionally serves as senior knowledge science liaison to a wide range of NIH and different authorities committees.
Below Dr. Kibbe’s management, NCI is making use of new approaches to boost NCI’s knowledge ecosystem, rising a various and proficient knowledge science workforce and constructing strategic partnerships to develop and disseminate superior applied sciences and strategies.
Till June 2024, Dr. Kibbe served because the chief for Translational Biomedical Informatics and vice chair of the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics within the Duke College College of Drugs and as chief knowledge officer for the Duke Most cancers Institute. He additionally served as director of informatics for the Duke Medical and Translational Science Institute.
Earlier than becoming a member of Duke, Dr. Kibbe served as an appearing deputy director of NCI from 2016 to 2017 and director of NCI CBIIT from 2013 to 2017. Whereas at NCI, he enhanced the institute’s digital capabilities, together with biomedical informatics, scientific administration info methods, and computing sources. He additionally helped set up the Genomic Knowledge Commons and the NCI Cloud Pilots (now Cloud Sources), was instrumental in establishing NCI’s partnership with the U.S. Division of Power to advance precision oncology and scientific computing, and performed a pivotal position in precision medication and Most cancers Moonshot actions, participating each federal and personal sector companions in most cancers analysis.
Dr. Kibbe’s analysis pursuits embrace knowledge illustration for scientific trials and enhancing knowledge interoperability between digital well being information and choice assist algorithms. He has been a proponent for open science and open knowledge in biomedical analysis and helped outline the info sharing coverage for the Most cancers Moonshot. In 2018, Dr. Kibbe was elected a fellow of the American Faculty of Medical Informatics.
Dr. Kibbe obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Know-how and accomplished his postdoctoral fellowship in molecular genetics on the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany. He obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from Michigan Technological College.
