Andy has been a part-time resident of Rehoboth Beach since 2020, splitting his time
between the beach and the Washington, DC area. He currently serves on his
condominium association’s Board of Directors and has a strong interest in ensuring that
all Rehoboth residents have a meaningful voice in decisions affecting the quality of life
and character of our beachside community.
Andy is a Senior Scientist at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
of the National Institutes of Health, where his research group uses genomic and
computational approaches to better-understand the mechanisms underlying
regeneration and stem cell biology. Andy also serves as the Director of Computational
Biology for the National Institutes of Health's Intramural Research Program, where he
leads strategic planning efforts related to the IRP’s computational infrastructure and
high-performance computing capabilities. In this role, Andy led a multi-year expansion
of Biology the IRP's central supercomputer, which grew to become the world’s largest
system dedicated solely to biomedical research, a distinction it holds to this day.
Andy also has a deep and long-standing commitment to mentoring and education. He is
the recipient of both the NHGRI Outstanding Mentor Award and the NIH's Ruth L.
Kirschstein Mentoring Award. He also served as Director of NHGRI's Intramural Training
Office, where he instituted career development and training programs still in use today.
He is co-editor of the widely used textbook Bioinformatics and he co-directs a lecture
series that has drawn over one million views online. He earned his B.S. at Cornell
University and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University, and his work has been
recognized with honors that include election as a Fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
Outside of work, Andy enjoys traveling, digging into mystery novels, indie films, and
spending time in the kitchen experimenting with new recipes, sharing the results of
those experiments with his friends.
