Jörg Hakenberg

Jörg Hakenberg is a senior bioinformatics scientist with a focus on high-throughput sequencing analysis pipelines, algorithms, and literature mining. He obtained a PhD in computer science from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and worked as a postdoc for the Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden and for Arizona State University. Prior to joining Mt Sinai, Jörg worked for Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceuticals as a Principal Scientist, supporting the oncology department with bioinformatics analysis, development of NGS pipelines, and molecular profiling of cancer cell lines. In Chen's lab, he is responsible for administration of large-scale bioinformatics databases and for software development, as well as curation of genetic variants. He is also working in the Resilience Project, aiming to identify buffering effects that lessen the manifestation of normally severe, early onset genetic disorders. See his homepage for details.Currently work at Illumina.