Will Roddy is an experienced leader in research informatics with a strong focus on neurological diseases. His work focuses on developing, deploying, and improving tools that support data acquistion, analysis, and integration of large datasets from multiple sources.
He currently supports the Critical Path Institue leading efforts to integrate clinical and preclinical data to develop standards that accelerate regulatory approval of new therapies with a focus on neurological diseases. Previously, his research has focused on military rehabilition research including combat casualty care for individuals with limb-loss, post-traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury.
M.S. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Delaware (In Progress)
B.S. in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
University of Arizona
Conduct experiments using both chronic implant and acute study surgery techniques
Assist with the implementation of new data collection systems including a combined dopamine-neural networks system and the Intan electrophysiology system
Assemble hardware and write code for microcontrollers to support experiment control and synchronize metadata and data to ensure effective experimentation
(Funding was supported by two competitive programs: the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Summer Research Program and the Undergraduate Biology Research Program at the University of Arizona [https://ubrp.arizona.edu]))