Musen Lab

Principal Investigator: Mark A. Musen, MD, PhD

Developing biomedical ontologies, knowledge representation methods, and tools that enable the organization, integration, and sharing of scientific knowledge.

Mark Musen, MD, PhD.

Mark Musen, MD, PhD.

Professor of Medicine, Computational Medicine Research Director, Stanford Division of Computational Medicine 

Dr. Musen leads Stanford Division of Computational Medicine and conducts research related to open science, data stewardship, intelligent systems, and biomedical decision support. His group developed Protégé, the world’s most widely used technology for building and managing terminologies and ontologies. He is Principal Investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, one of the original National Centers for Biomedical Computing created by the U.S. National Institutes of Heath (NIH). He is principal investigator of the Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR). Dr. Musen has led CEDAR which is a Center of Excellence supported by the NIH Big Data to Knowledge Initiative, with the goal of developing new technology to ease the authoring and management of biomedical experimental metadata. Dr. Musen chaired the Health Informatics and Modeling Topic Advisory Group for the World Health Organization’s revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and he currently directs the WHO Collaborating Center for Classification, Terminology, and Standards at Stanford University.