Brian Glanz, Creative Technologies Manager

Brian Glanz is the Creative Technologies Manager at NWABR, a non-profit whose purpose is to improve public understanding of biomedical research and its ethical conduct. Brian is our first technologist on staff, and has introduced blogging, social media, new web sites, and more to bring NWABR's many wonderful programs online in education, outreach, and member services.

Brian's work spans everything we do at NWABR, including NSF-funded curricula and teacher professional development to teach bioinformatics, called Bio-ITEST, and development of a collaborative, online game to learn bioinformatics in the context of a social network, also NSF-funded. Brian also supports programs introducing biomedical research and bioethics to students and the general public, from the Youth Ethics Summit, the NWABR Student Bio Expo, and Life Sciences Research Weekend to our new series of community bioethics salons.

Brian's 15-year software career has centered on human-computer interaction on the Web. With roles including User Interface Developer and Research Manager, he has developed interfaces and led usability research for dozens of Web-based tools and systems with millions of total users. Brian also founded and directs the Open Science Federation (OSF), whose mission is to improve science outreach and communications through development of open source technologies. OSF developed code which powers much of NWABR online.