Craig A. Magaret

Craig Magaret has extensive experience with data analysis and management in a regulated clinical environment, as well as bioinformatics and high-dimensional data mining.

His work history includes more than fifteen years with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), where he focused on the analysis of data from genomic sequences, expression arrays, and various proteomic and immunological assays. As the Associate Director of the Computational Biology Core of the FHCRC's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Mr. Magaret led and performed bioinformatic and analytical efforts with various data-driven discovery and analysis projects. His work has contributed to the efforts of several international NIH-funded clinical research networks, as well as the Coalition for AIDS Vaccine Discovery funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mr. Magaret was also the Bioinformatics Manager with Immunexpress, Inc., where he managed the day-to-day bioinformatics, data management, and analytics efforts with gene expression and proteomic biomarker discovery, and the development of diagnostic and monitoring algorithms. Additionally, Mr. Magaret has served as an analytical consultant for various firms in the capacity of biomedical research and data mining, assisting small clients with high-dimensional data analysis, typically in the field of biomarker discovery and molecular diagnostics. Among his work in this area was a two-year collaboration with the Naval Medical Research Center, doing proteomic biomarker discovery in the domain of combat medicine.

Mr. Magaret has a Master's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington, where he specialized in computational biology and data mining, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Zoology, and Anthropology, also from the University of Washington. Between his sessions in undergraduate and graduate school, Mr. Magaret completed a post-baccalaureate research fellowship with Stanford University in mathematical biology.