Lynn M. Schriml, PhD

• Bachelor of Arts, 1989, Wells College, Major: Biology

• Doctorate of Philosophy, 1997, University of Ottawa, Department of Biology

• IRTA/CRTA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1996-1999, National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Frederick, Maryland

Dr. Lynn M. Schriml is a Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and at the Institute of Genome Science (IGS) in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Dr. Schriml is a member of the Population Science Program within the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCC) Program in Oncology. Dr. Schriml’s research centers on developing and implementing ontological tools aimed at classifying and unifying cancer nomenclature and term usage.

Dr. Schriml leads a number of ontology and metadata standard development and implementation projects. As PI of the Disease Ontology project, established in 2003. Dr. Schriml leads ontology community-based curation, expansion and utilization efforts. The Human Disease Ontology, a designated Global Core Biodata Resource, is utilized broadly across biomedical databases and resources for knowledge and data sharing facilitating standardized annotation of biomedical data. Dr. Schriml’s group is currently focused on the classification and annotation of rare diseases and cancer, actively engaged with the Model Organism Databases to standardize human diseases associated with animal models.

As President of the Genomic Standards Consortium, Dr. Schriml leads an international team of genomic science leaders, to identify, build and implement novel metadata standards, thus providing a venue for standardized contextual descriptions of genomes, metagenomes and microbiome sequences and studies. 

Following Dr. Schriml’s postdoctoral research at the National Cancer Institute - Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center conducting population studies and characterizing mouse ABC-transporters, Dr. Schriml transitioned to bioinformatics. Dr. Schriml developed bioinformatics tools for model organism genome projects at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at NIH as a Staff Scientist prior to joining the Institute for Genome Research (TIGR) in 2005 to develop the microbial surveillance Gemina project.

Human Disease Knowledge Representation, Biomedical Ontologies, Genomic Metadata Standards, Epidemiology, Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Big Data, Microbiome, Microbiome, Knowledgebase

Dr. Schriml's full list of publications, at MyNCBI

• Baron JA, Johnson CMS, Schor MA, Olley D, Nickel L, Felix V, Bello SM, Greene C, Lichenstein R, Bisordi K, Koka R, Bearer C, Macatangay R, Ada N, Ballenger K, Bliss E, Colliver L, Dobbins G, Heitzig H, Dixon S, Semesky P, Garth J, Fairchild M, Gaskin P, Zahid S, Castillo R, Edwards S, Widjaja A, Usui Y, Lynch E, Clarkson M, Detwiler T, Schriml LM. The DO-KB knowledgebase 2026 update: expanding programmatic and language access. Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 Nov 26;. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf1213. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 41296549.
• Holm JB, Paragkamian S, Humphreys M, Chatterjee A, Yarwood S, Gaimaro J, Stavroulaki M, Tsaparis D, Plaitis M, Kasapidis P, Darivianakis S, Kotoulas G, Magoulas A, Oulas A, Kyrpiotakis Z, Pavlidis P, Ten Hoopen P, Cochrane G, Kooistra HCFW, Schriml JR, Schriml BE, Lagkouvardos I, Gkorezis P, Davies N, Laney C, Stanish L, Sutton G, Tighe S, Mizrachi IK, Parks D, Yilmaz P, Carey C, Buttigieg P, Goldstein P, Pafilis E, Schriml LM. First island-wide, single-day soil collection study on Crete reveals environmental drivers of microbial diversity. Environ Microbiome. 2025 Jul 25;20(1):94. doi: 10.1186/s40793-025-00752-z. PubMed PMID: 40708004; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12291233
• Gogate N, Lyman D, Bell A, Cauley E, Crandall KA, Joseph A, Kahsay R, Natale DA, Schriml LM, Sen S, Mazumder R. COVID-19 biomarkers and their overlap with comorbidities in a disease biomarker data model. Brief Bioinform. 2021 May 20; doi: 10.1093/bib/bbab191. 
• MetaSUB International Consortium. [Lynn Schriml]  The Metagenomics and Metadesign of the Subways and Urban Biomes (MetaSUB) International Consortium inaugural meeting report. Microbiome. 2016 Jun 3;4(1):24. doi: 10.1186/s40168-016-0168-z.