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Harold R. “Skip” Garner
Skip received his BS in Nuclear Engineering (minor in computer science) at the University of Missouri, Rolla in 1976. Skip received a Ph.D. in plasma/high temperature matter physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1982. He also holds an honorary professional engineering degree.

Skip worked for 12 years at General Atomics in La Jolla, California, where he conducted experimental and theoretical research for the Department of Energy at international fusion research facilities, principally in Japan (5 years) and the Soviet Union. In the last 6 years at General Atomics, he was a founding member of The Institute for Development and Application of Advanced Technologies, an internal think tank group, where he developed artificial intelligence/expert systems, new particle accelerators, high temperature superconductors, stealth technologies and biology software and instrumentation.

From 1994 to 2009, Skip held the P. O’B. Montgomery, M.D., Distinguished Chair, and was a Professor of Biochemistry and Internal Medicine, a member of the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development (Human Genetics Center) and a founding member of the Division of Translational Research (DTR) at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

In December, 2009, Skip moved to Virginia Tech and became the Executive Director of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.

He sits on numerous corporate advisory boards and advises for numerous governmental agencies. He is also the founder of several biotech companies - Helix, BioAutomation, Light Biology now Nimblegen/Roche and HelioText. His lab focuses on research in these areas: 1) applied computational biology and bioinformatics, 2) Medical Informatcs and 3) genetics, genomics and proteomics research that capitalizes on our software findings. Additional information and our on-line computational resources can be found on the www at.