Prof. Dr. Thomas Dandekar

Boolean semiquantitative Models, Drug-minded interactomics and large-scale patient data: Our effort to refine, reduce and replace animal experiments

Thomas Dandekar studied medicine at the University of Munich from 1979 to 1986. He then worked as a medical doctor at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neuropharmacology, in Martinsried until 1986. He completed his habilitation in biochemistry at the University of Heidelberg in 1994. He spent his postdoctoral period in Paris at the Institute Pasteur until 1988, after which he continues to work as a scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg. From 2000 to 2001 he worked as Reader (AR) for Bioinformatics at the Medical School Freiburg. Since 2001 he has been a full professor (C4), chair of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg and since 2002 member of the board of directors of the Biocenter.