Office of the Senior Vice President for Research

Welcome to the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research & Chief Technology Officer

Georgetown University is dedicated to conducting nationally and globally significant research that fosters greater insight and cross-cultural understanding, and addresses some of today’s critical societal challenges.

The Office of the Senior Vice President for Research was created in July, 2011 to lead Georgetown’s development of innovation alliances and partnerships with industry, universities, and national laboratories domestically and overseas.

We understand the importance of a multidisciplinary, integrative, and open-innovation approach to research. Our office strives to create an environment that recruits, engages, and rewards collaborative research among investigators from the natural sciences, social sciences, computational sciences, and the humanities. Our partners include investigators from other universities, public health, national laboratories, industry, and research organizations around the world.

MISSION

Our core mission is to:

• Create/foster the development of new core capabilities and technology platforms
• Develop new (often unconventional) partnerships, and
• Experiment, foster and develop new research environment(s) that offer the opportunity to conduct highly-integrative research.

To accomplish our mission we:

• Design and develop advanced informatics infrastructure(s) in partnership with leading technological organizations.
• Provide a team experienced in complex, multi-institutional, multi-national relationships. 
• Invest in developing relationships with other institutions, domestically and abroad, such as the Department of Energy, national laboratories, and foreign universities.
• Develop and provide a technical team that identifies, supports, leads, and manages new research initiatives.  
• Move our team across different research areas to cross-fertilize ideas from one domain to another.
• Facilitate the development of new educational programs, which build relationships that enhance our research competitiveness.

 Headed by Dr. Spiros Dimolitsas, the Senior Vice President for Research & Chief Technology Officer, our office oversees and supports Georgetown’s development of innovative alliances and partnerships with industry, universities, and national laboratories, working collaboratively with leaders across the University to promote research, secure investments in University-based programs, and oversee multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research programs.

We understand the importance of a multidisciplinary, integrative and open-innovation approach to research, which is reflected in our wide scope and diversity of disciplines and organizations contributing to our research domains of interest. Our approach to research, since the time of our establishment, is one of the distinguishable characteristics of our office.

Browse through the tabs above to learn more about our office and our current research projects.

News and Events

Improvements in HIV Data Quality across Public Health Jurisdictions Using the ATra™ Black Box

January 21, 2022

A paper published in Public Health Reports today details how Georgetown University partnered with 5 public health jurisdictions to enhance the matching of persons across HIV surveillance databases.  The addition of alias names to the algorithm that matched persons across jurisdictions identified 9070 (4.5%) more duplicate matches than using only one name per person.  It also increased the total number of matches at the exact through high levels by 15.4%.  This use of all possible names for a person provides more actual and potential matches to a jurisdiction, increasing the data available for ensuring engagement in HIV care and measuring progress on the HIV Care Continuum.