Shawn Levy

Shawn Levy, PhD, is a faculty investigator and the founding director of the Genomic Services Laboratory (GSL) at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. He serves as executive director of the HudsonAlpha Clinical Services Laboratory, LLC., which he launched in 2014. Levy focuses on the development and application of genomic and bioinformatic technologies and methods to support scientific investigation. His team uses high performance genotyping and sequencing technologies to support projects from plant and animal phylogenetic studies to translational and clinical-based projectsat the GSL. Levy is adjunct faculty in the department of genetics and department of epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for more than a dozen scientific journals. He received his PhD in biochemistry and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in genetics in 2000 at Emory University in Atlanta, where he set up a microarray facility at the Emory Center for Molecular Medicine. Before joining HudsonAlpha in 2009, Levy was a faculty member at Vanderbilt University Medical Center with appointments in the department of molecular physiology and biophysics and the department of biomedical informatics. He was the founding director of the Vanderbilt Microarray Shared Resource.