Gene Network Sciences makes board appointment
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Gene Network Sciences (US) has appointed Dr Eric Schadt co-chair of its scientific advisory board. Dr Schadt is leaving his position as executive scientific director of genetics at Merck & Co to work alongside the departing head of Merck oncology, Dr Stephen Friend, to create Sage, an open-access distributed data platform designed to enable collaboration by integrating genomic data sets in the public and private domains.