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PrintVivien R. Bonazzi, Ph.D.
B.Sc. University of Canberra, Australia
M.Sc. University of Melbourne, Australia
Ph.D. University of Melbourne, Australia
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Dr Vivien Bonazzi is a Program Director in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Dr Bonazzi oversees a diverse portfolio of bioinformatics and computational biology awards that include model organism databases, genome analysis and annotation tools and pipelines, gene expression and pathways analysis tools.
Dr Bonazzi is also part of the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) a trans-NIH Common Fund Initiative whose aims are to characterize the microbial communities found at several different sites on the human body and to analyze the role of these microbes in human health and disease. She is responsible for the bioinformatics and computational aspect of the project as well as managing several of the computational tools awards.
Prior to joining NHGRI, Dr Bonazzi was a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton managing several genome and protein bioinformatics projects that were part of the caBIG (Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) project. She has also held the positions of R&D Director for Bioinformatics at Invitrogen and Director of Gene Discovery at Celera Genomics where she was part of the team that sequenced and annotated the Human, Mouse and Drosophila genomes.
Dr. Bonazzi received a B.Sc. in Medical Laboratory Science from the University of Canberra, Australia, a M.Sc (prelim) in Pharmacology from the University of Melbourne, Australia and a Ph.D in Molecular Pharmacology and Computational Biology also from the University of Melbourne.
Last Reviewed: December 13, 2011
