J. Wade Davis

J. Wade Davis a Director and Research Fellow in the Genomics Research Center at AbbVie, where he leads a large group of computational scientists working to solve complex problems in genomics as it relates to pharmaceutical discovery and development. The team is responsible for analyzing genetic and genomic data from AbbVie clinical trials and external sources, such as Genomics Medicine Ireland, FinnGen, and the UK Biobank. These data involved exceeds over 1 million subjects and provide a rich source of data for biopharma research.

Wade graduated summa cum laude with his B.S. in Mathematics and B.A. in Economics from Armstrong State University in 1998. He received his PhD in Statistics from University of Missouri, where he also completed an NIH-funded fellowship in Biomedical and Health Informatics. In 2003, he joined the faculty of Baylor University as an assistant professor of statistics, and later moved to the University of Missouri where he earned tenure and attained rank of associate professor of biostatistics. He has been funded by more than two dozen federal research grants, and has more than 80 peer-reviewed publications. Wade has served on the editorial board for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and The American Statistician.