JulioSaez-Rodriguez Heidelberg UniversityGermany

Julio Saez-Rodriguez is Professor of Medical Bioinformatics and Data Analysis at the Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, director of the Institute for Computational Biomedicine, group leader of the EMBL-Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, a member of the Heidelberg ELLIS Unit, and a co-director of the DREAM challenges. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and M.I.T, group leader at EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, and professor of Computational Biomedicine at RWTH Aachen He is interested in developing and applying computational methods to acquire from omics data a functional understanding of biological networks and their deregulation in disease, and to apply this knowledge to develop novel therapeutics. Current emphasis in his group is on use of single-cell technologies, multi-omics integration, and understanding multi-cellular communication. Application areas include cancer, autoimmune, and cardiovascular diseases. More information at www.saezlab.org