Mr Jim McBride
Group leader, Systems Biology; Information Technology Manager; Director, Peter Wills Bioinformatics Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Email: j.mcbride'at'garvan.org.au
Research Group: Systems Biology
Jim spent time in information technology in the oil exploration industry and the insurance business before seeking a role close to his ideals of contribution to human health. The opportunity to join Garvan in the midst of a transition into newly-built premises back in 1995 was a perfect fit.
Jim joined Garvan in 1995 in the newly-created position of Information Technology Manager. Since that time, the Information Technology (IT) group, together with the Peter Wills Bioinformatics Centre (PWBC), has grown from 3 people to 8. The IT Group and PWBC now service the computing, information management and bioinformatics needs of over 400 Garvan researchers, the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, St Vincent’s Hospital researchers and the national medical research community.
Education
1981 Bachelor of Science. Majors in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Publications
Education
1981 Bachelor of Science. Majors in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Publications
Prall OW, Menon MK, Solloway MJ, Watanabe Y, Zaffran S, Bajolle F, Biben C, McBride JJ, Robertson BR, Chaulet H, Stennard FA, Wise N, Schaft D, Wolstein O, Furtado MB, Shiratori H, Chien KR, Hamada H, Black BL, Saga Y, Robertson EJ, Buckingham ME, Harvey RP. An Nkx2-5/Bmp2/Smad1 negative feedback loop controls heart progenitor specification and proliferation. Cell 2007; 128(5):947-59
Areas of Interest
Bioinformatics, information technology, information architecture, application of computing technology, information management, data modellingNews
Garvan IT honoured by Computerworld
29 Jun 2009
Garvan was one of the 2009 finalists in the Education and Academia category of Computerworld's Honors Program for its innovative centralised medical research database. The awards recognise organisations whose use of information technology has been especially noteworthy for originality of conception, breadth of vision and significance to society.
Garvan’s Peter Wills Bioinformatics Centre receives $1.13 million
04 Oct 2006
Garvan’s Peter Wills Centre for Bioinformatics, which models and predicts diseases by applying information science to biology, received $1.13 million from a fundraising evening held by CRI in late September.
