Nicholas J. Schork

Nicholas J. Schork, PhD, a renowned leader in the quantitative aspects of translational research, is Deputy Director and Distinguished Professor of Quantitative Medicine at The Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. He also has positions as an Adjunct Professor in Population Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology at City of Hope; Psychiatry and Biostatistics at UC San Diego; and Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at Scripps Research.

Previously, Dr. Schork was Professor and Director of Human Biology at the J. Craig Venter Institute; Professor, Molecular and Experimental Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, and Director of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics for the Scripps Translational Science Institute. He has also previously held faculty appointments at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and Harvard University. Between 1999 and 2000 Dr. Schork took a leave of absence from CWRU to conduct research as Vice President of Statistical Genomics at the French Biotechnology company, Genset, where he helped guide efforts to construct the first high-density map of genetic variation in the human genome.

Dr. Schork has published more than 550 articles related to biomedical and translation science, detailing novel methodologies and applications for disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention as well as clinical trials design. He holds nine patents associated with genetic analysis methodology, and has been involved with more than 10 start-up companies. His current collaborative research efforts include his role as Scientific Director of the National Institute of Aging-sponsored Longevity Consortium, whose goals are to identify and characterize factors that contribute to human longevity. Dr. Schork is a member of numerous scientific journal editorial boards, a frequent participant in U.S. National Institutes of Health-related steering committees, and has served on the advisory board of five companies. Dr. Schork earned a BA and MA in Philosophy, an MA in Statistics, and a PhD in Epidemiology, all from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.