Tim Clark is a researcher in biomedical informatics with over seventeen years of experience in the field. He is Director of Informatics at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease; holds an Instructor appointment at Harvard Medical school; and is a co-Investigator at both the Massachusetts Alzheimer Disease Research Center and the MGH/MIT Center for Parkinson’s Disease Research. Tim is also a Founding Editorial Board member of the journal Briefings in Bioinformatics. Before coming to Harvard, Tim was Vice President of Informatics at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, where his team built one of the first integrated bio- and chemi-informatics software platforms in the pharmaceutical industry. His current research group is based in the Neurology Research Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where it works in the areas of neuroinformatics, semantic web, and social computing. Tim is currently a Core Member of IIC, where he served as Founding Director of Research Programs in 2006-2007.