Full Professor
Biomedical Informatics and Data Analysis
Heidelberg University
Director
Institute for Computational Biomedicine
SCIENTIFIC VITA
| 1996 – 2001 | ’Licenciatura’, approx. equivalent to MS in Chemical Engineering University of Oviedo, Spain |
| 2000 – 2001 | Exchange Erasmus Student University of Stuttgart |
| 2001 – 2002 | Research Assistant University of Stuttgart, Institute of Biochemical Engineering Insilico Biotechnology, Germany |
| 2002 – 2007 | PhD in Process Engineering (summa cum laude) Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg |
| 2007 – 2010 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology, USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biological Engineering, USA |
| 2008 – 2010 | Scientific Coordinator, NIH-NIGMS Cell Decision Process Center |
| 2010 – 2015 | Group Leader European Bioinformatics Institute Hinxton, UK Secondary appointment EMBL Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg Senior Fellow Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK |
| 2015 – 2018 | Full Professor of Computational Biomedicine (Univ. Prof. Dr. Ing.) RWTH-Aachen University, Faculty of Medicine |
| 2015 – 2018 | Visiting Group Leader EMBL – EBI |
| 2015 – 2018 | Institute Director Institute for Computational Biomedicine I RWTH-Aachen University |
| Since 2018 | Full Professor Biomedical Informatics and Data Analysis Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine |
| Since 2018 | Director Institute for Computational Biomedicine Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Heidelberg |
AWARDS
| 2000 | ’Premio Fin de Carrera Dupont’ University of Oviedo for the best academic record |
| 2001 | ’Mencion Especial’ from the Spanish Ministry of Education for outstanding academic results |
| 2007 | FEBS Youth Travel Fellowship to attend FEBS Systems Biology Course in Gosau, Austria |
| 2008 | Monika and Thomas Zimmermann Foundation Award Best PhD Thesis in medicine-oriented Systems Biology |
| 2010 | BIO-IT World Best Practices Award with L Alexopoulos, I Melas, A Chairakaki, A Mitsos |
| 2012 | Genome Technology Young Investigator |
| 2016 | Theodore von Kármán fellowship from RWTH Aachen |
| 2017 | Best Young Investigator award of the Spanish Biotechnology Society |
SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION
| 2010 | Co-Director of DREAM Challenges |
| 2016 – 2018 | Scientific Coordinator PrECISE: Personalized Engine for Cancer Integrative Study and Evaluation |
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
MJ Guinney J Saez-Rodriguez. Alternative models for sharing biomedical confidential data. Nature Biotechnology 2018
Schubert [6 authors] J Saez-Rodriguez. Perturbation-response genes reveal signaling footprints in cancer gene expression. Nature Communications, 2018
D Turei, T Korcsmaros, J Saez-Rodriguez. OmniPath: guidelines and gateway for literature-curated signaling pathway resources Nature Methods, 2016 → Cover Nature Methods
S Hill [34 authors] G Stolovitzky, J Saez-Rodriguez, S Mukherjee#. Inferring causal molecular networks: empirical assessment through a community-based effort. Nature Methods, 2016
F Eduati [15 authors] NIEHS-NATS-UNC DREAM Toxicogenetics Collaboration [7 authors] Y Xie, J Saez-Rodriguez. Opportunities and limitations in the prediction of population responses to toxic compounds assessed through a collaborative competition. Nature Biotechnology, 2015