Alexis Norris
Chair, FDA Omics Working Group
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAlexis Norris is a bioinformatician with 12 years of experience translating complex genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic data into regulatory and clinical insight, currently chairing the FDA Omics Working Group. At the FDA since 2018, she combines hands-on variant discovery and RNA‑seq expertise with policy-focused coordination across omics standards and applications. Her academic work—culminating in a PhD from Johns Hopkins—includes discovery of a novel structural variant in familial pancreatic cancer and multidisciplinary postdoctoral studies in neurodevelopmental disorders. She has taught graduate bioinformatics and biostatistics, founded a nonprofit to bring genomics into high school classrooms, and brings rare experience bridging diagnostic assay development, regulatory science, and outreach.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM) at The Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineBS, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, BS, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (14)
command-line-tool7
google-images7
image-gallery7
image-processing6
wifi5
command-line5
python5
image-search4
image-download4
gnuradio3
visual-studio3
development-environment2
color-filter2
windows2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
noorye4/VAR-website
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
noorye4/one-max-problem
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:32 commits in 7 months
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