Igor Jurisica

Senior Scientist and Professor, Krembil Research Institute

Igor Jurisica, PhD, DrSc is a Senior Scientist at Osteoarthritis Research
Program, Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Schroeder Arthritis Institute and Data
Science Discovery Centre for Chronic Diseases, Krembil Research Institute,
Professor at University of Toronto and Visiting Scientist at IBM CAS. Since
2015 he has served as Chief Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab, Rotman
School of Management, and since 2021 he is a scientific director of the World
Community Grid.

His research focuses on integrative informatics and the representation,
analysis and visualization of high-dimensional data to identify
prognostic/predictive signatures, determine clinically relevant combination
therapies, and develop accurate models of drug mechanism of action and
disease-altered signaling cascades. He has published extensively on data
mining, visualization and integrative computational biology, including multiple
papers in Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Methods, J Clinical
Oncology, J Clinical Investigations. He has been included in Thomson Reuters
2014, 2015 & 2016 lists of Highly Cited Researchers (http://highlycited.com),
and The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2015 & 2014 Reports. In
2019, he has been included in the Top 100 AI Leaders in Drug Discovery and
Advanced Healthcare list (Deep Knowledge Analytics,
http://analytics.dkv.global). In 2023, he has been included in the Top 100 AI
in Oncology leaders:
https://platform.dkv.global/map/reports/ai-in-oncology-leaders/