The Genomics Research and Data Science Center for Computation and Cloud Computing (GRADS-4C) is led by director and co-principal investigator Joseph L. Graves Jr., Ph.D., MacKenzie Scott Endowed Professor of Biology, College of Science and Technology. Principal investigator Kristen Rhinehardt, Ph.D., an assistant professor in computational and data science engineering, College of Engineering, serves as co-director.
GRADS-4C is based at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University anchors together a community of researchers and students from institutions across the region including Shaw University, Winston-Salem State University and North Carolina Central University Â.