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Peer Bork, PhD, is senior group leader and joint coordinator of the
Structural and Computational Biology unit at EMBL, a European research
organisation with headquarters in Heidelberg. He also holds an
appointment at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in
Berlin. Dr Bork received his PhD in Biochemistry (1990) and his
habilitation in Theoretical Biophysics (1995). He works in various
areas of computational biology and systems analysis with focus on
function prediction, comparative analysis and data integration. He
published almost 400 research articles in international, peer-reviewed
journals, among them more than 40 in Nature, Science or Cell. He served
in various review and evaluation panels, is on the editorial board of a
number of journals including Science and PloS Biology, and functions as
senior editor of the journal Molecular Systems Biology. Dr Bork
co-founded four biotech companies, two of them went public. More than
20 of his former associates hold now professorships or other group
leader positions in prominent places in Europe or North America. |
