Participating project partners
Barbara Engelhardt
Princeton University
Prof. Barbara Engelhardt is from the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning at Princeton University, is an associated partner in the project. It contributes its expertise in statistical modelling of human genetic variation to the consortium.
Barbara Hammer
Bielefeld University
Prof. Barbara Hammer heads the Chair of Machine Learning at the CITEC Cluster of Excellence at Bielefeld University and is an outstanding expert in machine learning with a focus on recurrent neural networks and dimensional reduction.
Fabian Theis
Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU)
Prof. Fabian Theis heads the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Zentrum München, is one of the leading institutes for data-based modelling in biology and biomedicine. He applies his expertise in statistical learning and mechanistic modelling to applications in single cell genomics, among others. He coordinates the consortium together with Dr. Oliver Stegle.
Julien Gagneur
Technical University of München (TUM)
Julien Gagneur is a Professor of Computational Biology and heads a bioinformatics laboratory at the Technical University of Munich where he develops methods for quantitative modelling of gene regulation and is interested in how genetic variants encode phenotypes.
KMU Molecular Health
KMU Molecular Health is an industrial partner and is one of the leading companies in the development and application of information technologies in precision medicine, is involved
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Dr. Oliver Stegle heads the department 'Statistical genomics and systems genetics' at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. He is an internationally renowned expert in biomedical ML, particularly in molecular genomics and the biology of single cells.
Roland Schwarz
MDC Berlin
Dr. Roland Schwarz is group leader for Evolutionary and Cancer Genomics at MDC Berlin with expertise in the development of statistical evolutionary models and methods of machine learning to investigate tumor heterogeneity
Sach Mukherjee
The German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
Dr. Sach Mukherjee heads the Department of Statistics and Machine Learning at the DZNE Bonn, is an international expert in the field of machine learning in precision medicine, with expertise in the graphical modelling of high dimensional problems.
Uwe Ohler
MDC Berlin
Dr. Uwe Ohler heads the Department of Computational Regulatory Genomics at MDC Berlin and is an international pioneer in bioinformatics and genomics with a focus on statistical descriptions of gene regulation.