Dr. Vahan Simonyan has expertise in biotechnology and biomedical informatics, previously serving at the FDA as a lead scientist of HIVE, R&D Director of Bioinformatics. Additionally, Dr. Simonyan is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University, where he teaches and develops curriculums for biomedical big data informatics and biostatistics research and development courses.
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Vahan has a solid scientific background in varied academic disciplines: MS in Physical Organic Chemistry, Ph.D. in Quantum Physics and Mathematics, post-doctoral training in Nanotechnology and Quantum Statistical Thermodynamics. He is a prolific author of scientific publications in physics, chemistry, quantum chemistry, nanotechnology, biotechnology, population dynamics, and bioinformatics; and he is a recipient of multiple awards, and multimillion dollar grants for excellence in number of health informatics and biomedical informatics projects. 

Vahan is an advisor to several biotech companies to national governments in digital healthcare. His accomplishments in academic and R&D technology carriers have been complemented with the success of technology leadership roles in government, academia and industry where he establishes large-scale and complex, science-heavy R&D infrastructures capable of serving worldwide communities for research and regulatory purposes.