Subha Madhavan, MS, PhD, joined the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center on September 15 as the first Director of Clinical Research Informatics and Research Assistant Professor of Oncology. Her research occurs at the intersection of biomedical science and informatics. In her role at Lombardi, she will coordinate informatics-related activities, bringing together existing databases and creating new infrastructure and analytic tools to build the Georgetown Database of Cancer (G-DOC).

Madhavan holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the Uniformed Services University for Health Sciences, as well as a master’s degree in computer information systems from the University of Maryland. Most recently, she served as Associate Director at the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and IT where she led the development of several bioinformatics programs including the platform supporting the REMBRANDT project, which received the Service to America Medal in 2005.