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.

Ron Appel (Chair)

Executive Director emeritus, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Phil Bourne

Dean, School of Data Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia

Josefina Campos

Director of Unidad Operativa Centro Nacional de Genómica y Bioinformática at ANLIS “Dr Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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

Director of Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and China National Center for Bioinformation (CNCB), Beijing, China