# IDC team

Imaging Data Commons is being developed by a team of engineers and imaging scientists with decades of experience in cancer imaging informatics, cloud computing, imaging standards, security, open source tool development and data sharing.

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Our team includes the following sites and project leads:

* Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA (BWH)
  * Andrey Fedorov, PhD, and Ron Kikinis, MD - Co-PIs of the project
  * Katie Mastrogiacomo
  * Maria Loy
* Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA (ISB)
  * David Gibbs, PhD - site PI
  * William Clifford, MS
  * Suzanne Paquette, MS
* General Dynamics Information Technology, Bethesda, MD, USA (GDIT)
  * David Pot, PhD - site PI
  * Fabian Seidl
* Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany (Fraunhofer MEVIS)
  * André Homeyer, PhD - site PI
  * Daniela Schacherer, MS
  * Henning Höfener, PhD
* Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA (MGH)
  * Chris Bridge, DPhil - site PI
* Radical Imaging LLC, Boston, MA, USA (Radical Imaging)
  * Rob Lewis, PhD - site PI
  * Igor Octaviano
* PixelMed Publishing, Bangor, PA, USA (PixelMed)
  * David Clunie, MB, BS - site PI
* Isomics Inc, Cambridge, MA, USA (Isomics)
  * Steve Pieper, PhD - site PI

Oversight:

* Leidos Biomedical Research
  * Ulrike Wagner - project manager
  * Todd Pihl - project manager
* National Cancer Institute
  * Erika Kim - federal lead
  * Granger Sutton - federal lead

### IDC Alumni

We are grateful to the following individuals who contributed to IDC in the past, but are no longer directly involved in the development of IDC.

* Deepa Krishnaswamy, PhD (BWH)
* William Longabaugh, MS (ISB)
* George White (ISB)
* Ilya Shmulevich, PhD (ISB)
* Poojitha Gundluru (GDIT)
* Prema Venkatesun (GDIT)
* Chris Gorman, PhD (MGH)
* Pedro Kohler (Radical Imaging)
* Hugo Aerts, PhD (BWH)
* Cosmin Ciausu, MS (BWH)
* Keyvan Farahani (NCI)
* Markus Herrmann (MGH)
* Davide Punzo (Radical Imaging)
* James Petts (Radical Imaging)
* Erik Ziegler (Radical Imaging)
* Gitanjali Chhetri (Radical Imaging)
* Rodrigo Basilio (Radical Imaging)
* Jose Ulloa (Radical Imaging)
* Madelyn Reyes (GDIT)
* Derrick Moore (GDIT)
* Mark Backus (GDIT)
* Rachana Manandhar (BWH)
* Rasmus Kiehl (Fraunhofer MEVIS)
* Chad Osborne (GDIT)
* Afshin Akbarzadeh (BWH)
* Dennis Bontempi (BWH)
* Vamsi Thiriveedhi (BWH)
* Jessica Cienda (GDIT)
* Bernard Larbi (GDIT)
* Mi Tian (ISB)


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