James Costello, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Costello is also the Co-Director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and a Director of Systems Biology DREAM Challenges. The Costello lab focuses on cancer genomics and pharmacology, including the study of cancer development and progression in the wet lab and developing mechanistic computational models leveraging genomics data in the dry lab. In his role in the DREAM Challenges, Dr. Costello helps to organize and direct a range of Challenges, including the RA2 DREAM Challenge and the Preterm Birth Prediction DREAM Challenge.