Michael Italia
Lead Application Scientist, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Michael is a Lead Application Scientist in The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Biomedical Informatics. His primary role is to lead, support, and advise projects with a need for integrated clinical, genomic, and imaging data to enable translational research.

Michael has over 10 years of experience building and managing complex biomedical data repositories. Prior to his work at CHOP, Michael spent 8 years designing and building several genomic data integration projects for one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.

Michael has had a dual interest in biology and computer science since first discovering the field of Bioinformatics as an undergrad studying Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The Pennsylvania State University. He also holds master’s degree in Biotechnology/Bioinformatics from The University of Pennsylvania.