Dr. Jeffrey Reid is the Chief Data Officer and one of the co-founders of the Regeneron Genetics Center® (RGC™) where he leads a team transforming drug discovery and development with data. His primary focus is on maximizing the impact that the integration of deidentified electronic health record-derived phenotypes and genomic data can have in providing insights for new drug target discovery, program validation and clinical optimization, with the goal of improving patient outcomes. Dr. Reid has worked in all aspects of large-scale genomic sequence data production and analysis, and using his background in computational physics has been an evangelist for cloud computing in genomics and the thoughtful application of data science and artificial intelligence to next-generation sequencing problems. When he first joined RGC in 2013, he prompted the organization to be among the first adopters of cloud computing for generating and managing large-scale genomic data sets, laying the path for others in the genetics community to soon follow.

Dr. Reid received his Ph.D. in physics from The University of Washington and his bachelor’s degree from Harvey Mudd College. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut with his husband Jim and cats Sabrina & Lyndon.