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Mélanie Courtot is an Assistant Professor and Director of Genome Informatics at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), where she leads initiatives to develop computational systems for managing and analyzing large-scale biomedical data. Her work focuses on advancing precision medicine through data integration and standardization, particularly in cancer research and genomics. She co-leads the Clinical and Phenotypic workstream for the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and contributes to international cohort harmonization efforts with the International HundredK+ Cohorts Consortium (IHCC).
Dr. Courtot holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia (2014) and a Master's in Computer Science from Université Louis Pasteur (2002). Prior to OICR, she led ontology and data standardization projects at EMBL-EBI, including the Gene Ontology (GO) editorial office and FAIRPlus initiatives. Her research emphasizes machine learning-driven data quality improvement, semantic harmonization, and open-source platforms for global data accessibility.
Key contributions include the Phenopacket schema for clinical data representation and the GA4GH Passport standard for secure data access. She advocates for FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles and promotes diversity in research teams and projects. Her lab's work spans cancer mechanisms, phenomics, and translational informatics to bridge research and clinical applications.
