(in alphabetical order)

Johann Bauer, PhD
Scientific Information Manager at the Max Planck Institute, Martinsried, Germany.

Dr. Bauer received his PhD from University of Munich. Starting in 1983 in Martinsried, his research centered on Free Flow Electrophoresis (FFE) and preparative cell purification. From 1989 - 1991, he has been involved in research on cancer cell isolation and characterization working at the University Regensburg, Germany. Since 1991, Dr. Bauer has been working on the retrieval and evaluation of Scientific Information (IVS-BM).

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Erich Gombocz (Chair)
VP, CSO, IO Informatics.

see Management Team

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Sangtae Kim, PhD
Executive Director, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison Wisconsin.

In addition to his executive role, Dr. Kim is engaged in cross-disciplinary research at the intersection of biotechnology and information sciences. His previous work experience includes serving the National Science Foundation as director of the division of shared cyberinfrastructure, as well as six years of executive industry experience gained at Lilly Research Laboratories, Pfizer Global Research and Development and Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research as well as the Feddersen Professorship at Purdue University.

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Bruce McManus, MD, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS
Professor, UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. and Director of the James Hogg Research Centre, the Heart + Lung Institute, and the NCE CECR Centre of Excellence for Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF Centre).

Dr. McManus served as the inaugural Scientific Director of the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and has an active clinical investigative program focused on enteroviral heart disease, transplant vascular disease, and novel blood biomarkers of heart, lung, and kidney failure and transplantation. He works in a cross-disciplinary setting focused on translational research questions enabled by computational sciences and including biomarker discovery and validation. Dr. McManus has co-authored over 350 full length publications, has been recognized by numerous awards, serves on many editorial boards and advisory committees, is committed to training and mentoring trainees, and has convened many public and private sector partnerships in research.

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Elgar Pichler, PhD

Computational Biology Consultant, W3C HCLSIG member.
Dr. Pichler's research is focused on computational analysis problems across the drug discovery and development process, as well as clinical health care scenarios. He is particularly interested in the use of ontologies and other semantic web technologies in the life sciences. He is a member of the W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group and other academic and industry groups, where he contributes to the development of open source tools for data integration and analysis. Dr. Pichler has worked as a bio/cheminformaticist in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry for over 10 years. Most recently he was a senior manager and principal bioinformatics scientist at AstraZeneca, where he worked on knowledge management systems, text mining, dynamical systems modeling, network analysis, and visualization.

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Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University.

Dr. Shah’s research is focused on developing applications of bio-ontologies, specifically building ontology based approaches to annotate, index, integrate and analyze diverse information types available in biomedicine. He teaches regularly on how to make and use biomedical ontologies, on current trends & future directions in biomedical ontologies and on reasoning with biomedical data--in the form of tutorials at professional conferences and in Stanford graduate courses. Dr. Shah holds an MBBS from Baroda Medical College, India, a PhD from Penn State University, USA and completed post-doctoral training at the Stanford Medical School; He co-chairs the Bio-Ontologies meeting at the Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology conference since 2008.

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Robert L. Stevenson, PhD
Founder and principal of the Abacus Group and Separation Science Editor, ISC Publications.

The Abacus Group provides management assistance and business development for companies in separation sciences and analysis. Dr. Stevenson has previously held positions at BioRad Laboratories, Varian Associates, and Shell Development Company. He also serves as Separation Science Editor for American Laboratory, American Biotechnology Laboratory, and China Laboratory.

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