Scientific Advisory Committee

The GBC Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) provides advice to the GBC Board of Funders and the GBC Executive Director in all aspects of the development and implementation of the GBC’s scientific mission.

NameAffiliation
Phil Bourne (Chair)Dean, School of Data Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
Ron AppelExecutive Director emeritus, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Josefina CamposSenior Technical Advisor, World Health Organization, Germany
Christine DurinxManaging Director, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
Varsha KhodiyarDirector, Echobyte Data Solutions, UK
Paula MabeeChief Scientist and Observatory Director, National Ecological Observatory Network, USA
Nicola MulderProfessor and head of the Computational Biology (CBIO) division at the University of Cape Town

Principal investigator of H3ABioNet, a Pan African bioinformatics network for H3Africa
Philippe SanseauGSK, Head of the Global Computational Biology and Stats Department at GSK Pharma R&D in Target Sciences
Yongbiao XueSenior Principal Investigator of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences