Shawn Levy's Biography

Shawn Levy, Faculty Investigator, Hudsonalpha Institute for Biotechnology

Shawn Levy, PhD is a Faculty Investigator at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, AL. The HudsonAlpha Institute is a private, non-profit research institute with a three-pronged mission of genomics research, educational outreach and economic development. In addition to individual research awards, the research portfolio of HudsonAlpha includes participation in the The Cancer Genome Atlas Project, the ENCODE project, a Center for Excellence in Genome Sciences, several center grants as well as research awards from NASA and the military. Dr. Levy joined HudsonAlpha in August 2009 and established the Genomics Services Laboratory (GSL). The GSL is a comprehensive genomics facility supporting all major next-generation sequencing platforms as well as microarray, genotyping and gene expression platforms. Prior to joining HudsonAlpha, Dr. Levy was an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and founding Director of the Vanderbilt Microarray Shared Resource at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Levy received his PhD in Biochemistry from Emory University in 2000 and joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University Medical Center later that year. Dr. Levy remains on the faculty at Vanderbilt University as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics. He is also adjunct faculty in the Department of Genetics and Department of Epidemiology at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He is an author or co-author on more than 75 peer-reviewed publications and his research interests include technology and methods development in high-density gene expression profiling, genotyping, and structural and functional genomics of the immune system. Dr. Levy is a past member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association as well as the co-chair of the Genomics Working group of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is an active member of several professional organizations and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for more than a dozen scientific journals.