ames Lowey, CIO of the Translational Genomics Re- search Institute (TGen), joined the organization in 2003. A vision of 50 leaders in science, medicine, government and business, TGen has assumed the expan- sive role of translating discoveries in genomes into patient treatments—not eventually, but rapidly. “In the research community, people often focus on the next grant, on pub- lishing papers, and on discovery without necessarily having a total focus on treating patients,” said Lowey. “But we are very patient-centric, patient-driven.” What is Lowey’s role in bridging this gap? His mission is to build high-performance computing environments. And he says that new ways of handling masses of newly created data – often measured in petabytes per day in healthcare environments – are cr

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