Nathan Goodman

Dr. Goodman is developing disease-focused community databases to support research on Type 1 Diabetes and Huntington's Disease funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the High Q Foundation. To this end, he brings to bear his significant expertise on managing information systems for large scale biological laboratories and mining of large biological datasets. He is motivated by the goals of discovering the causes of disease and the efficacy of various treatments. Dr. Goodman develops databases and software for applications in biomedical research. He is developing disease-focused community databases to support research on Huntington’s Disease and Type 1 Diabetes funded by the Hereditary Disease Foundation and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and is also developing supercomputer software for genome analysis. Previously, he was a founding member and head of bioinformatics at the Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research, ran a bioinformatics research group at the Jackson Laboratory, headed a technical marketing group at Compaq Computers, and worked as a bioinformatics consultant. Dr. Goodman also has more than twenty-five years experience in the computer field where he was a professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and Boston University, and a founder of Kendall Square Research Corporation, a startup company that developed multiprocessor supercomputers.