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Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany


Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez
Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez, PhD, is Professor of Medical Bioinformatics and Data Analysis at the Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, director of the Institute for Computational Biomedicine and group leader of the EMBL-Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit. His research focuses on computational methods to understand and treat the deregulation of cellular networks in disease, using prior knowledge and omics data to build patient-specific models. The Group has ample experience on the analysis of multi-Omics data, and in particular on the analysis of drug screenings and omics data in cancer patients, leveraging existing mechanistic knowledge such as pathways and networks. In DECIDER, the Saez-Rodriguez team focuses especially on data integration and computational modelling. Read more on the their website.