Nicholas Schork

Nicholas is a Professor and Director of Human Biology at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). He is also an adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Family and Preventive Medicine (Division of Biostatistics) at UC San Diego (UCSD). Prior to joining JCVI, Nicholas was a Professor, of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute; Director, of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Scripps Translational Science Institute; and, Director of Research at Scripps Genomic Medicine, a division of Scripps Health. Previously, he was a Professor of Biostatistics and Psychiatry, and Co-Director of the Center for Human Genetics and Genomics, UCSD, an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, Ohio, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University. During his appointment at CWRU, Nicholas took a sponsored leave of absence to conduct research as the Vice President of Statistical Genomics at the French biotechnology company, Genset, where he helped guide efforts to construct the first high-density map of the human genome.