Full Name
Soichi Ogishima
University/company
Tohoku University
Speaker bio
Soichi Ogishima is Professor in the Department of Informatics for Genomic Medicine, Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization at the Tohoku University. He leads development of the integrated database called dbTMM which consists of genomic/omics data, health data, clinical data, and phenotypic data collected in prospective cohort study of the Tohoku Medical Megabank project. Especially for phenotypic data, he conducts research of precise deep phenotyping utilizing EHR data from hospital information system. He also leads development of biobank network by cross-biobank search on biospecimen and data stored in major biobanks in Japan. He graduated from the Dept. of Mathematical Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and received his Ph.D. in Medicine from Graduate School of Tokyo Medical and Dental University.
Soichi Ogishima