Project Manager/Directors
Jennifer Li-Pook-Than, PhD
Director of Precision Health and Engagement Center
Jennifer Li-Pook-Than is the Director of Precision Health and Engagement Center. She is dedicated to advancing precision health and expanding access to improved healthcare. She specializes in multi-omics and multimodal data integration, with expertise in transcriptomics, genomics, and cross-omics harmonization (iPOP), including epigenomic, and wearable datasets. Her work combines ELSI perspectives, novel molecular biology and cutting-edge methods to drive precision health research.
She has over a decade of experience in interdisciplinary projects, including lead roles in a longitudinal pediatric aging and intervention (GOALS) and the VAST (Viromes Across Space and Time) studies. She is also deeply committed to mentorship and co-learning, with a focus on Indigenous communities. She helped establish BRAICELET (Biorepository for American Indian Capacity, Education, Law, Economics, and Technology) as part of SPHERE, the Stanford Precision Health Engagement Initiative. She serves as an advocate for the Native BioData Consortium (nativebio.org) and as a lead scientist with Research to the People (researchtothepeople.org).
Lihua Jiang, PhD
Director of Mass Spectrometry Center for Advanced Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D.
Lihua Jiang directs the mass spectrometry center for the Integrated Personal Omics Profiling and the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) projects. More She is trained in medicine and obtained her Ph.D in analytical chemistry. She has extensive experience in mass spectrometry based quantitative proteomics and metabolomics. Also, Lihua has developed and validated a variety of quantitative methods for the study of different cell lines, human organs and plasma/serum samples and constructed a quantitative proteome map of human body. She is an expert in mass spectrometry technologies and truly believes that the integration of modern technologies with omics profiling will revolutionize medicine.
Amir Bahmani, PhD
Lecturer in Computational Biology and Genetics, and Director of the Deep Data Research Center (DDRC).
Amir Bahmani is a lecturer in computational biology and genetics and director of the Deep Data Research Center (DDRC). Bahmani is also recognized for co-founding the course Cloud Computing for Biology and Healthcare and developing the Stanford Data Ocean project, which integrates cutting-edge technology with education.
He also leads Research and Development at Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine (SCGPM) and has been working on distributed and parallel computing applications since 2008.
Currently, Amir is an active researcher in the VA Million Veteran Program (MVP), Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN), the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP), Stanford Metabolic Health Center (MHC) and Integrated Personal Omics Profiling (iPOP).