New scientific advisory Board at Qlucore

New scientific advisory Board at Qlucore

Qlucore, provider of intuitive bioinformatics software for research and precision and companion diagnostics, announces the creation of a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), consisting of five members, chaired by Carl-Johan Ivarsson, CEO of Qlucore.

The SAB includes two of Qlucore’s founders; Thoas Fioretos and Magnus Fontes and three independent senior and renowned scientists and industry experts. The Board will provide unbiased and scientifically based guidance to Qlucore, on key scientific results and technology trends, and advise on future product roadmaps for Qlucore.

“I am delighted with how the Board is formed. The breadth of experience, knowledge and competence of the members will play a significant role for Qlucore’s product strategy with the objective to develop new software to assist with improved cancer diagnosis and clinical decision support. Together the Board members cover many of the key areas that are important for the future general strategy of Qlucore in providing advanced analytics tools for precision medicine and healthcare”, says Magnus Fontes.

The board members are:

• Albrecht Stenzinger: Professor of Molecular Tumor Pathology, Deputy Director of the Institute of Pathology (IPH), as well as Head of the IPH Center for Molecular Pathology (CMP) and Section Head for Molecular Diagnostics and Biomarker Development at the Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
• Aurélien de Reyniès: Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Paris at the Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers and the former scientific director of the CIT research program of the French League against Cancer.
• Gang Mu: PhD in Mathematics, the Head of Artificial Intelligence – Partnerships at Roche. He has held multiple positions in Industry over the years and he is a visiting research scholar at the Institute for Mathematics at the University of Zurich.
• Thoas Fioretos: MD, PhD, professor and senior consultant in clinical genetics at Lund University, Sweden. Co-founder of Qlucore.
• Magnus Fontes: PhD in Mathematics, currently the Director of Institute Roche in France, a former professor at Lund University and Institute Pasteur in Paris, France. Co-founder of Qlucore.

About Qlucore

Qlucore is a leading provider of new generation intuitive bioinformatics software for research and precision and companion diagnostics. Qlucore’s mission is to make it easier to analyze the huge amounts of complex data that are generated by innovations in the fields of genomics and proteomics by providing powerful visualization-based bioinformatics data analysis tools for research and precision diagnostics.

The Qlucore Omics Explorer software is a Do-It-Yourself bioinformatics software for research in the life science, plant- and biotech industries, as well as academia.The Qlucore Diagnostics and Qlucore Insight software's are platforms with built in AIbased machine learning for multi-omics companion and precision diagnostics. Qlucore was founded in 2007 at Lund University, Sweden and has today customers in about 25 countries around the world, with sales offices in Europe and North America, and distribution in several countries in Asia. Qlucore is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth market. www.qlucore.com