National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Scientific Director: Richard H. Scheuermann, Ph.D.

Current research emphases of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Division of Intramural Research (DIR) lie in two areas:

1. Computational health research, including natural language processing, clinical image processing, biomedical ontologies and information models, and clinical analytics.
2. Computational biology research, including transcription, chromatin and networks; structure and function; sequence statistics; and evolutionary genomics. 

The NLM Scientific Director is responsible for the overall direction and quality of research conducted by investigators in the DIR.

Learn more about the National Library of Medicine’s Division of Intramural Research.