Scott E. Devine

Scott E. Devine is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. His research focuses on germline and somatic human genome variation, particularly mobile genetic elements and their impact on cancer genomics.

• Doctor of Philosophy (Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1993)
• Postdoctoral Fellow (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1999)

Research interests include:

• Human genome variation analysis
• Mobile genetic element activity
• Cancer genomics and somatic mutations
• Structural variation mapping
• Bioinformatics tool development

Recent publications highlight his work on:

• Structural variation in human genomes (2025)
• Population-scale mobile element discovery (2021)
• Haplotype-resolved genome analysis (2021)
• Colorectal cancer initiation mechanisms (2016)

Dr. Devine has contributed to major genome projects including:

• The 1000 Genomes Project (2010-2015)
• Development of CloudMELT and MELT software tools