Leigh Carmody
Research Data Steward Manager
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolLeigh Carmody is a seasoned research data steward and scientific curator with over eight years of experience in creating and managing controlled vocabularies and ontologies within the life sciences, and a talent for translating complex concepts into usable guidance for diverse audiences. She currently serves as Research Data Steward Manager at GSK, where she establishes data standards on the Onyx platform and maintains metadata accuracy to support data discovery and interoperability. Previously, as an Information Scientist at NIEHS, she led collaborations to implement data standards, support data infrastructure and pipelines, and champion FAIR data principles for environmental health datasets. At The Jackson Laboratory, she managed metadata for projects, evaluated AI/LLM tools for clinical annotations, and contributed to Cerebral Palsy variant discovery and Medical Action Ontology initiatives, including conference presentations. With a PhD from Vanderbilt and a BA from Bryn Mawr College, Leigh blends rigorous research training with hands-on data stewardship across academic and industry settings, and is based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., B.A. at Bryn Mawr CollegePh.D., Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (94)
ontology10
semantic-web10
owl10
medical10
ontologies10
electrophysiology10
semantics10
medicine10
monarchinitiative10
biomedical10
diagnostics10
exposure9
metadata9
transcriptomics9
genomics9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
LCCarmody/Pheno_odk_test
Aug 2018 - Aug 2022
A test repo demonstrating design pattern -based phenotype ontology development using the Ontology Development Kit
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 years 1 month
development-kittest-repoowlontology-development-kitdesign-pattern
LCCarmody/OBOFoundry.github.io
Dec 2022 - Nov 2023
Metadata and website for the Open Bio Ontologies Foundry Ontology Registry
Contributions:1 push in 11 months
foundryontology-registryowlgeneontologyopen-science
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