In the past nine months, UC San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla recruited three of the country's top "big data" researchers from Google, MIT and the University of Colorado. Two of the deals will cost the campus about $9 million. The latest recruit is Jill Mesirov, the 64 year-old chief informatics officer at the elite Broad Institute at MIT-Harvard. She's joining the UC San Diego School of Medicine, where she'll build the infrastructure needed to analyze such things as genomes, electronic medical records and collections of medical images. The campus confirmed on Wednesday that Mesirov, a cancer expert, will join UC San Diego on July 1st -- if her appointment is approved by the school's Academic Senate, which is expected. For more information go to http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/apr/15/bigdata-stars-ucsd/
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