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.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Phil Bourne (Chair) | Dean, School of Data Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia |
| Ron Appel | Executive Director emeritus, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics |
| Josefina Campos | Senior Technical Advisor, World Health Organization, Germany |
| Christine Durinx | Managing Director, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie |
| Varsha Khodiyar | Director, Echobyte Data Solutions, UK |
| Paula Mabee | Chief Scientist and Observatory Director, National Ecological Observatory Network, USA |
| Nicola Mulder | Professor 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 Sanseau | GSK, Head of the Global Computational Biology and Stats Department at GSK Pharma R&D in Target Sciences |
| Yongbiao Xue | Senior Principal Investigator of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |