Mark Boguski, M.D., Ph.D. is a well-known leader in informatics and genomics research. He has written and lectured extensively on bioinformatics and genomics, and developed the first publicly available database system for expression array data. Dr. Boguski leads bioinformatics specialists and experimental biologists in developing the interface between computational biology and functional genomics to gain new insights into systems biology. An original member of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Dr. Boguski has been involved with the development of a number of high-impact, enabling information resources. These include: dbEST, a critical resource for gene discovery and in silico SNP mining; applications of UniGene for creation of the first large-scale maps of the human genome and the design of gene chips from expression profiling; and ArrayDB for management and analysis of expression data. He has also made significant contributions to comparative genomics and pharmacogenomics.

Dr. Boguski is the author or co-author of over 100 articles and is the recipient of the Regents' Award from the National Library of Medicine and the NIH Director's Award. He is an organizer of the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Genome Sequencing and Biology and has served on grant review and advisory panels for a number of government and private funding agencies and as a consultant to industry. He is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, a former Editor of Genome Research and serves on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science magazine. Dr. Boguski is a  member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Merck Genome Research Institute, a member of the Genetics Advisory Group for the Wellcome Trust and an advisor to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and pursued specialty training in pathology.