Peter Good, Ph.D.
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B.S. Iowa State University, 1980
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1987
Room 4076, MSC 9305
Rockville, MD 20892-9305
Dr. Peter Good oversees a portfolio of awards in model organism databases, ontology development, computational biology and functional genomics. Dr. Good also is involved in managing the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and large functional genomics projects.
Dr. Good has been a Program Director in Genome Informatics at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) since 2001. His research interests have spanned fields from virology, developmental biology, molecular genetics and genomics. Prior to his work at NHGRI, Dr. Good was an assistant professor at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport studying the role of RNA-binding proteins in early vertebrate development. Dr. Good was a post-doctoral fellow at the NIH working with Dr. Igor Dawid on identifying genes involved in regulating early vertebrate development. He received his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987, studying molecular virology in the laboratory of Dr. Janet Mertz.
Last Updated: October 18, 2011