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Alan Christoffels

Alan Christoffels is a bioinformatics scientist, academic, and an author. He is Professor of Bioinformatics, and the director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape. He has been serving as a senior advisor to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Pathogen genomics & Partnerships and DSI/NRF Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Public Health Genomics.

Christoffels’ primary contributions and research work are in the areas of host-pathogen interaction, genome evolution, pathogen genomics, and biobank LIMS.

Christoffels is a founding member of Global Emerging Pathogens Consortium, elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and President of the African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from 2020 until 2022. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa in 2022. Provided by Wikipedia