Nils Gehlenborg

Nils Gehlenborg is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Master of Medical Sciences in Biomedical Informatics (MMSc-BMI) program. His research focuses on developing computational methods and visualization tools for biomedical data analysis, with applications in cancer genomics and precision medicine.

Education: PhD from the University of Cambridge, with predoctoral training at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).

Research Interests: Integration of algorithmic approaches with advanced data visualization techniques to support sense-making in biology. Key areas include tools for large-scale cancer genomics (e.g., The Cancer Genome Atlas), reproducible research in epigenomics, and collaborative software development. He co-founded BioVis and VIZBI, leading initiatives to advance biological data visualization standards and practices.

Grants & Funding:

• NIH Community Data Hub for Integrative Visualization (U24OD038421)
• NIH Grammar-Driven Genomic Data Visualization (R01HG011773)
• NIH Integrative Visualization of Spatiotemporal Tumor Atlases (R33CA263666)

Labs & Teams: Leads the Gehlenborg Lab and contributes to projects like the Caleydo visualization framework and the HuBMAP consortium.