Welcome Address

Nora Toussaint currently serves as the Head of Biomedical Data Science and Lead of the Health & Biomedical Vertical at the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC). She earned her PhD from University of Tübingen, focussing on silico design of peptide-based vaccines. During her postdoc at MSKCC in New York and later as a staff scientist at the New York Genome Center, she worked on metagenomics, infectious diseases, and cancer. In 2015, Nora joined NEXUS at ETH Zurich where her focus shifted towards the management of clinical and biomedical research data. She assumed her current role at SDSC in 2024.