Kelly Robertson, executive director of the Department of Community and Economic Development Governor’s Center for Local Government Services, visited the area known as Innovation Corridor.
February 23, 2021
February 23, 2021 | Shortly after his appointment as the CIO for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 2003, Mike Tartakovsky renamed the NIAID Office of Technology and Information Systems. Rechristened the NIAID Office of Cyberinfrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), the name change reflects the realization that information technology has become a fundamental research tool for the biomedical research community. As he put it in a conversation with
Bio-IT World earlier this year: There are no non-computational disciplines left.
NIAID was doing its part to share that message by training collaborators and sponsored researchers in Africa, India, and around the globe in advanced bioinformatics. But, Tartakovsky remembered, the institute was missing the mark.