About Us

Profiles Research Networking Software was developed under the supervision of Griffin M Weber, MD, PhD, with support from Grant Number 1 UL1 RR025758-01 to Harvard Catalyst, The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center from the National Center for Research Resources and support from Harvard University and its affiliated academic healthcare centers.

More Information

For more information about Profiles RNS, please email the Harvard development team at profiles@hms.harvard.edu. We will try to reply promptly. Please note that commercial support options are available through Recombinant Data Corp. Harvard has no financial relationship with Recombinant, but we recommend them as an Authorized Service Provider for Profiles RNS.

Harvard Development Team

The software implementation is led by the Harvard Medical School Information Technology Department. The current and past members of the development team include Nick Benik, Niraj Desai, Paul Gomez, John Halamka, Ken Huling, Shashank Jain, Melissa Kenny, Kevin Laitinen, Kellie Lucy, Krishna Nellutla, James Norman, Rob Piscitello, George Rakauskas, Jeff Rosen, Michele Sinunu, Franco Valentino, Marlon Violette, Griffin Weber, and Steve Wimberg.

UCSF Development Team

The UCSF Profiles team includes Mini Kahlon, Eric Meeks, Kristine Moss, Rachael Sak, and Leslie Yuan. UCSF has developed innovative promotional strategies for research networking, assisted with quality assurance, and are adding OpenSocial support to Profiles RNS. Mini Kahlon is co-chair with Griffin Weber of the National CTSA Research Networking Group, which is leading the efforts to create a national pilot to demonstrate interoperability among different research networking platforms.

Recombinant Data Corp.

The Profiles RNS team at Recombinant Data Corp. includes Kimber Barton, Nick Brown, Peter Emerson, Dan Housman, Mike Klumpenaar, Mark Mischke, Matvey Palchuk, and Nancy Pickard. Recombinant provides commercial support for Profiles RNS, hosts publication disambiguation services, develops administrative tools for Profiles RNS, and writes documentation and marketing materials.