Madan Babu Mohan, Endowed Chair in Biomedical Data Science at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA, has pioneered a data-science approach, combining fundamental biological questions with state-of-the-art computational and experimental techniques to make important discoveries. He distils enormous amounts of data into universal principles with direct relevance to biology and biomedical research.
His research does not rely on one method or one technological advancement, rather, in multi-level, multi-disciplinary approaches to biomedical systems. The impact of his work goes beyond any individual gene or disease or technology; it focuses on developing new ways of doing science, establishing concepts, and obtaining a deeper understanding of human biology by bridging different scales of organisation.