Biography
Peter Covitz
Chief Operating Officer, National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics.

Peter Covitz is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Bioinformatics in Rockville, Maryland. He previously led the Core Infrastructure group at the NCI Center for Bioinformatics, and was responsible for developing the NCI's platform for interoperable information systems, a model-driven, service-oriented architecture called caCORE. Prior to joining the NCI, Dr. Covitz was Vice President of Professional Services at InforMax, Inc. where he ran the bioinformatics service and support division of the company. Earlier in his career Dr. Covitz worked as a research scientist and manager at Incyte Pharmaceuticals and Molecular Applications Group. Dr. Covitz did his graduate work on transcriptional regulation at Columbia University, and post-doctoral training in genomics and bioinformatics at Stanford University.


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