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Dr.
Tong is Director of Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at FDA’s
National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR/FDA). He has served science
advisory board for several multi-institutional projects in Europe and USA. He
also holds adjunct appointment at several universities. In addition, he is the
founder and board chairperson of newly established international MAQC Society.
His division at FDA is to develop bioinformatic methodologies and
standards to support FDA research and regulation and to advance regulatory
science and personalized medicine.
The most visible projects from his
group are (1) conducting the Microarray and Sequencing Quality Control (MAQC/SEQC)
consortium to develop standard analysis protocols and quality control metrics
for emerging technologies to support regulatory science and precision medicine;
(2) development of liver toxicity knowledge base (LTKB) for drug safety; (4) in silico drug repositioning for the
enhanced treatment of rare diseases; and (4) development of various tools such
as ArrayTrackTM suite to support FDA review and research on
pharmacogenomics. In addition, his group also specializes in molecular modeling
and QSARs with specific interest in estrogen, androgen, and endocrine
disruptor. Dr. Tong has published more
than 250 papers and book chapters.