August 27, 2008
The UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy has named Kevin Long as the director of its pharmacoinformatics facility.
The new pharmacoinformatics facility, which is based in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been created to develop resources for assessing drug-gene relationships, performing computational pharmacology analysis and providing IT platforms for pharmacogenomics studies.
As the director, Long will provide overall strategic leadership and management in planning and directing applications development and also design and implement physical databases.
Long received his bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering technology at the DeVry Institute of Technology and has more than 15 years of pharmaceutical development experience. He comes to the institute from GlaxoSmithKline, where he served as global manager of bioinformatics for eight years, most recently managing the development of high-throughput systems that included genome-wide association data collection and analysis, custom high-throughput genotyping systems, genotyping assay design, and sequencing data collection for use in GSK’s pharmacogenetic research around the world.
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