Tamas Korcsmaros

Tamas Korcsmaros developed a signalling network database, SignaLink, as a PhD student, which filled a vital niche in the landscape of bioinformatics tools, and has since become one of the most used signalling network resources for human and model organism studies. It also forms the core of OmniPath, a more general human signalling network resource he co-developed with the group of Julio Saez-Rodriguez.

In 2014, he received a special five-year BBSRC fellowship to work in the computational biology and sequencing-focused Earlham Institute and the gut microbiome-centred Quadram Institute at the Norwich Research Park. This fellowship allowed him to establish a multidisciplinary group that combines computational and experimental approaches, including gut organoids.

In 2019, he was appointed Tenure-Track Group Leader at the Earlham and Quadram Institutes. His group has carried out multiple projects to predict, analyse and validate host-microbe interactions in the gut, especially in relation to the regulation of autophagy by microbes and in disease conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and cancer. He has led multiple innovation and industrial partnership projects to develop new computational tools and platforms to analyse multi-omics data.

At the end of 2021, he moved to Imperial College, and currently leads both a research group focused on improving understanding of the pathomechanisms of IBD, and the Imperial BRC Organoid Facility, which establishes patient-specific multi-omics studies for various complex diseases. He is now an Associate Professor at Imperial, and Director of the Centre for Intestinal Systems.