Federal 100 winner: Jonathan Kagan
Kagan spearheaded the development of a system that enables AIDS researchers to manage and exchange information about HIV clinical trials.
Jonathan Kagan
Deputy Director for Program Development at the Division of AIDS
National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Kagan spearheaded the development of a system that enables AIDS researchers to manage and exchange information about HIV clinical trials.
The Division of AIDS' Enterprise System provides a set of tools and standards for researchers at the agency and partner institutions. It includes a comprehensive database on clinical trials, a registry of researchers and institutions, and an online system for reporting and analyzing incidents of adverse reactions.
"As a result [of Kagan’s efforts], we now have standards-based information tools, built on and accessed through a common framework, that enable us to broadly share and utilize the information necessary to ensure the safe and effective management of a collection of large and complex clinical trial networks working to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic," said Margaret Johnston, director of the Vaccine Research Program in the Division of AIDS.
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