Boris Steipe
Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBoris Steipe is a physician-scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, with a career spanning biochemistry, molecular genetics, and bioinformatics. He founded and directed Toronto's Specialist Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (2004–2019), shaping generations of researchers in an interdisciplinary field. His international career includes leadership roles at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, and most recently an affiliate engagement with Heidelberg University's Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic Studies, reflecting a wide curiosity about science, art, and humanities. His research clusters include protein chemistry, structural biology, and systems biology, and he writes at the intersection of science and aesthetics, philosophy of art. In recent years he has been guiding academia through the era of Generative AI, exploring how AI tools can augment bioscience and education. Based in Old Toronto, he holds an MD and PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and has a track record of cross-disciplinary mentorship and program building.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation (Biochemistry), Habilitation (Biochemistry) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Github Skills (23)
bioinformatics8
exploratory8
structural-variation7
computational-biology7
transcription6
android6
r-package6
systems-biology5
spelling5
spellchecker5
biology4
spell-checker4
identity4
hunspell3
network-analysis3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hyginn/BCB420.2019.ESA
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
BCB420 @ UofT: Exploratory Systems Analysis tools projects
Contributions:25 PRs, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
uoftanalysis-toolsexploratory
DREAM-Toronto/Drug-Combination-Prediction-2015
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 5 months
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