A middle-aged man with shoulder-length grey hair, light facial hair, and blue eyes is smiling gently at the camera. He is wearing a dark zip-up jumper over a dark shirt, with a plain grey background behind him.

John Quackenbush – keynote speaker at Digitalize in Sthlm 2021!

Meet John Quackenbush Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Harvard TH Chan School – and one of our international keynote speakers at Digitalize in Sthlm 2021

John Quackenbush is a Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. John’s PhD was in Theoretical Physics, but in 1992 he received a fellowship to work on the Human Genome Project. This led him through the Salk Institute, Stanford University, and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), before moving to Harvard in 2005.

Find out more in the abstract of John’s talk  “AI in Medicine and Biomedical Research” at Digitalize in Sthlm 2021

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