Davide Chiarugi starts this month as director of SIB’s Personalized Health Informatics group. The group plays a key role in making health-relevant data interoperable and shareable for research in Switzerland, through the Data Coordination Centre and secure BioMedIT infrastructure of the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN). Davide brings extensive leadership, data management and bioinformatics experience across a variety of applications – including human pathogens and other health challenges – and a passion for enabling data-driven biomedical research.
A brief bio
- Head of Data Management, Center for the Transformation of Chemistry, Germany
- Head of the Computing and Database Department, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
- Director of the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core Facility, University of Cambridge, UK
- Postdoctoral roles at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens and Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany, and the Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy
- PhD in computer science, University of Siena, Italy
Further developing the Swiss personalized health landscape
SIB’s Personalized Health Informatics (PHI) group supports Switzerland’s pioneering position on collaborative research with sensitive patient data, in particular through the Swiss Personalized Health Network initiative (SPHN). The group manages the SPHN Data Coordination Center (DCC) and coordinates the BioMedIT network – a national Trusted Research Environment that enables secure health-data exchange and processing for research.
A brief bio
- Head of Data Management, Center for the Transformation of Chemistry, Germany
- Head of the Computing and Database Department, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
- Director of the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core Facility, University of Cambridge, UK
- Postdoctoral roles at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens and Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany, and the Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy
- PhD in computer science, University of Siena, Italy
See more on SIB’s work on Trusted Research Environments
Davide’s wide-ranging experience in data management across different countries and fields, combined with his enthusiasm for improving patient outcomes, will contribute to further strengthening data-driven health research in Switzerland and beyond.
SIB’s Board of Directors thanks SPHN Managing Director Thomas Geiger for leading PHI ad interim over the past months, warmly welcomes Davide into the role – and looks forward to this exciting new chapter for PHI and SPHN.
Being able to contribute to human health through the efficient and secure use of data is what excites me.
