Eric Neumann, Ph.D.

Director of the Clinical Semantics Group
founder and co-chair for the W3C Semantic Web Healthcare and Life Science Interest Group (HCLSIG)


Biography:
Eric K. Neumann is Director of the Clinical Semantics Group, a consulting firm that develops intelligent clinical systems and advices the pharmaceutical industry on applications of the Semantic Web. He is also founder and co-chair for the W3C Semantic Web Healthcare and Life Science Interest Group (HCLSIG) that is bringing together industry leaders to identify domain-specific applications that will benefit from semantic web technologies. He recently was Senior Strategist for Teranode Corporation, and prior to this was Dr. Neumann was Global Head of Knowledge Management for Scientific and Medical Affairs within Sanofi-Aventis, covering all of global R&D. He has also held executive positions at several other companies, and was an NSF-funded researcher for 7 years while at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman. Dr. Neumann developed BioDash, the first Drug Discovery Semantic Web dashboard, and is currently working on Maglev, a system for rapidly mapping legacy databases onto the Semantic Web. Dr. Neumann is an expert in knowledge-based methods for the pharmaceutical industry, and has been in the biotechnology industries for the past 18 years. Dr. Neumann holds an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in neurobiology and developmental genetics from Case Western Reserve University.

Talk Title:Imaging and the Semantic Web: Achieving More from Next Generation Analytics

Abstract: Imaging is increasingly becoming a generator of large-volume data, and has great potential in many R&D applications. Within Drug Discovery and development, image analysis is being used to more fully comprehend biological mechanisms, perform high-content screens and measure complex sets of biomarkers. The ability to perform complex analyses on such data will benefit greatly through the inclusion of concise semantic definitions for biological characterizations and analytics procedures. As the newly created Semantic Web standards address both these areas, much can be achieved in a relatively short time by their utilization. This presentation will highlight various ways that these can be applied, and what kind of benefits can be expected.