Dr. Gottardo is a Full Member in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at Fred Hutch, and an affiliate professor of statistics at the University of Washington. Dr. Gottardo’s current research interests center on the development of computational tools and statistical methods for analyzing high-dimensional data with applications to immunology, vaccine research, and immunotherapy. He is principal investigator (PI) of several grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Gates Foundation, and the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. In 2018 he received the Mortimer Spiegelman Award, which honors a statistician below the age of 40 who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics. That same year, he also became director of the newly formed Fred Hutch Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center, which fosters interaction between the Hutch’s experimental and clinical researchers and their computational and quantitative science colleagues with the goal of transforming patient care through data-driven research.