Eric Venner

Eric Venner is an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, USA. He leads a team of informaticians responsible for developing and maintaining bioinformatics pipelines for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis, including quality control metrics, alignment files, genomic annotation, and variant calls for whole genome and exome datasets.

• Oversees clinical reporting pipeline architecture for the HGSC Clinical Laboratory
• Active in CNV detection and clinical variant annotation/prioritization research
• Key contributor to major projects: All of Us Research Program, eMERGE Network, Right10K pharmacogenomics collaboration, Undiagnosed Disease Network, KidsCanSeq (CSER consortium), and RADIANT rare diabetes network
• Coordinates NGS harmonization activities across multiple institutions with CAP/CLIA compliance expertise

With over a decade of experience in computational biology, Dr. Venner combines software industry expertise with academic research, having developed commercial bioinformatics tools that serve hundreds of users nationwide.