As a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine professor and Co-Director of The McCormick Genomic & Proteomic Center at The George Washington University (GW) Dr. Mazumder works closely with national and international collaborators in developing molecular biology resources. His research focus is on developing novel methods for data-to-knowledge discovery and community driven bioinformatics projects such as the BioCompute initiative and the High Performance Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE). He has experience in scientific management, bioinformatics infrastructure building, and through NCI, NSF, NIAID, NIH Common Fund, pharmaceutical, non-profit, and FDA funding he has been involved in bioinformatics research associated with cancer biology, glycobiology, microbiology, and metagenomics. In addition to his research activities, he directs the Bioinformatics M.S. graduate program and Co-Directs the Ph.D. Genomics and Bioinformatics program at GW. His plans include development and support of university-wide sustainable bioinformatics and systems biology innovation infrastructure and solutions for conducting research in fields related to cancer biology and microbiology. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8823-9945; https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajamazumder