2021
Peer Bork
Pioneering bioinformatician receives prize for sharing his scientific tools
The world is currently awash with data. Within science, the quantity of data on genome sequencing and health is virtually inexhaustible. However, harnessing these data requires advanced analytical tools. For more than 30 years, bioinformatician Peer Bork has developed and shared analysis tools that can help solve problems related to health, the environment and climate. For this he is receiving the 2021 Novozymes Prize.
About Peer Bork
Peer Bork
Professor
- 2021: ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology): accomplishments of a senior scientist award
- 2020: Director of the EMBL-Heidelberg site (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Germany
- 2016: ERC Advanced Investigator Grant on gut microbiome at the strain level
- 2011: ERC Advanced Investigator Grant on cancer microbiome
- 2009: The Royal Society and Académie des sciences Microsoft Award for the advancement of science through computational methods
- 2008: Nature award for mentoring in science
- 2001: Head of Unit (department), EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
- 1995: Habilitation in theoretical biophysics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
- 1995: Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
- 1991: Postdoctoral fellow and project leader, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin and EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
- 1990: PhD in biochemistry, Leipzig University, Germany