Simon Mercer is a Program Manager in the External Research & Programs Group.

I have a background in biology (Ph.D. in mammalian chromosomal evolution) and have worked in various aspects of bioinformatics over the years. Most recently I was Director of Bioinformatics and Strategic IT at the National Research Council of Canada's Institute for Marine Biosciences, with responsibility for the Canadian Bioinformatics Resource, a national network dedicated to bioinformatics research support. I then worked as Director of Software Engineering at Gene Codes Corporation, authors of the leading desktop DNA sequence assembly application and a forensic application used to identify the remains of the victims of the September 11th World Trade Center attacks.

In October 2005 I became a Program Manager at Microsoft, with a mandate to push the state of the art in academic bioinformatics research.

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