Alex Wagner
Associate Professor
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Wagner is a Principal Investigator and tenure-track Assistant Professor with 11 years of experience at the intersection of clinical bioinformatics, cancer genomics, and web development. As an NHGRI Genomic Innovator and K99/R00 scholar, he directs the international Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium (VICC) and co-leads GA4GH’s Variant Representation group to build standards for computable biomolecular variation. His work drives scalable genomic medicine and AI-assisted variant interpretation through open, reusable frameworks and web resources used in precision oncology. Trained as a computational geneticist with a PhD from the University of Iowa, he combines hands-on tool development (including contributions to cancer data resources and DGIdb) with clinical laboratory experience, giving him a rare blend of informatics, bench-aware insight, and standards leadership.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology at Iowa State UniversityPh.D. Genetics, Computational, Ph.D. Genetics, Computational at University of Iowa
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Github Skills (130)
interpretation10
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cancer-genomics10
genomes10
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specification10
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genomics10
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scientific-computing10
genes10
rna-seq10
database10
data-visualizations10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
griffithlab/docm
Jul 2015 - Feb 2018
Retired Project: Rails frontend to The Genome Institute's database of curated mutations (DoCM)
Contributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 7 months
databasefrontendrails
ga4gh-gks-ARCHIVED/ga4gh-gks.github.io
Mar 2019 - Oct 2024
GA4GH Genomic Knowledge Standards
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 8 months
knowledgega4ghstandardsbioinformaticsgenomic
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