We are pleased to announce that Dr. Igor Jurisica has been appointed at the Krembil Research Institute as a Senior Scientist. Dr. Jurisica, who was formerly appointed at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, is an internationally acclaimed computational biologist. He has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential researchers: his papers have been ranked among the top 1% most cited in his field by Thomson Reuters in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Since 2015, he has served as Chief Scientist – Computational Biology at the Creative Destruction Lab, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He has collaborated with IBM for 18 years—a partnership that has led to the creation of the IBM Life Sciences Discovery Centre at UHN, for which he serves as Director.
Another initiative that Dr. Jurisica is involved with is the World Community Grid, which uses volunteered computing power from across the globe to analyze large datasets in parallel using advanced machine learning. This project is enabling Dr. Jurisica to analyze millions of data points with the aim of identifying clinically relevant gene markers.
As a pioneer in his field, Dr. Jurisica brings immense computational expertise, including analysis, integration, visualization, and modelling of high dimensional data generated by high throughput biology to facilitate biomarker discovery. He has developed a large array of tools and databases to analyze signal transduction pathways, protein-protein interactions, and miRNA that will be instrumental to his proposed research at Krembil.
Dr. Jurisica will complement Krembil’s growing computational biology section and will be focussing on arthritis as a chronic disease. He is a valued addition to our computational neuroscience research, and will support and advance a wide range of research initiatives across the institution.
We welcome Dr. Jurisica and lab to Krembil!