The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has tapped Sean Mooney to serve as director of NIH’s Center for Information Technology (CIT), starting in mid-March.
“Dr. Mooney has spent his career developing effective and collaborative computing systems to support biomedical research,” said NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli. “His background in bioinformatics and expertise in the implementation and governance of a multi-faceted research IT department make him particularly suited to lead NIH CIT.”
As the new CIT director, Mooney will be in charge of a $400 million portfolio that spans the use of supercomputers that researchers use to work with large-scale data analyses for medical research.
“CIT collaborates with the NIH intramural community in computational bioscience, engineering, informatics and statistics to help make biomedical discoveries that protect and improve our nation’s health. Additionally, CIT provides IT infrastructure and IT services to support all of NIH,” stated the agency.
Dr. Mooney comes to the CIT from the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine where he teaches biomedical informatics and medical education. He also serves as the chief research information officer and interim director for the UW Institute for Medical Data Science and director of informatics for the UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences.
“I look forward to welcoming Dr. Mooney to the NIH leadership team and extend my gratitude to Ivor D’Souza who is serving as acting director of CIT following the retirement of former director Andrea Norris in September 2022,” added Bertagnolli.
