Acting Director
Education:
Ph.D., University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Biography
Reed Shabman, Ph.D., has over 15 years of laboratory and scientific administrative leadership spanning infectious diseases and their vectors. His experiences with biomedical data have shaped a perspective that data science approaches and efficient data sharing are cornerstones of infectious and immune-mediated research and are required to effectively respond to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
Dr. Shabman has effectively worked with experimentalists, informaticians and data scientists, illustrated by the almost 50 publications in his bibliography. Collaborative highlights include unique insights in a publication on Ebola virus and Marburg virus RNA editing, pathogen discovery through next-generation sequencing, and dissemination of microbial and vector datasets indexed in NCBI. In his prior role at NIAID’s Office of Genomics and Advanced Technologies (OGAT), he coordinated the Systems Biology for Infectious Diseases (SBID) Program to foster a community that integrates experimental biology, computational tools, and modeling across human pathogens. Within SBID, he coordinated Data Dissemination and Modeling Working Groups to establish best practices for disseminating and modeling biological datasets. Dr. Shabman also serves as a co-chair of the Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) which promotes modeling and data science activities across the government and the research community.
Dr. Shabman received his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and performed postdoctoral studies at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Before joining NIAID, he was a Lead Scientist at the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) and an Assistant Professor at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI).