Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of ELIXIR-DE

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) acts as a consultative body to provide recommendations to the members of ELIXIR-DE and, in particular, to the Central Coordination Unit (CCU) on technical, organizational and strategic matters related to the mission of ELIXIR and ELIXIR-DE. Evaluation of the ELIXIR consortium by the SAB is scheduled as an annual process. The Scientific Advisory Board is constituted of eight members who are internationally renowned scientists in bioinformatics.

	Reinhard Schneider (Chairperson) Head of Bioinformatics Core Facility, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg Belvaux, Luxembourg
	Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon Deputy Director of the Plant Biology and Breeding Division, French National Institute for Agricultural Research INRA Versailles, France
	Ivo G. Gut Director of Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico Barcelona, Spain
	Ivo Hofacker Head of Research Group Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria
	Connie R. Jimenez Head of OncoProteomics Laboratory, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands
	Alice C. McHardy Head of Department Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig, Germany
	Claudine Médigue Head of the LABGeM, French National Center for Scientific Research CNRS Paris, France
	Bengt Persson Director of SciLifeLab Bioinformatics Platform, Uppsala University & Karolinska Institute Uppsala, Sweden