Systems Biology: a Grand Challenge for Europe

Steering Committee


ESF Forward Look on Systems Biology


Members of the high-level expert group

Roel van Driel (Co-Chair), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hans Westerhoff (Co-Chair), University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom,Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Lilia Alberghina, University Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Gianni Cesareni, Università di Roma, Italy
Roland Eils, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
Frank Gannon, European Molecular Biology Organisation, Heidelberg, Germany
Mats Gyllenberg, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Stefan Hohmann, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
Karl Kuchler, University and BioCenter of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Sergio Nasi, Università la Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Bela Novak, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
Dieter Oesterhelt, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Uwe Sauer, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Barry Utting, consultant, Surrey, United Kingdom

Advisers from industry

Adriano Henney, AstraZeneca
Frank Tobin, GlaxoSmithKline
Pierre de Meyts, Novo Nordisk
John Savin, Physiomics
Dominic Tildesley, Unilever
Frans van der Ouderaa, Unilever
Wanda Andreoni, IBM

ESF office in Strasbourg

Martina Hilger-Hildebrandt, Head of the Life, Earth and Environmental
Sciences Unit (LEE (formerly LESC))
Carole Moquin-Pattey, Head of the Medical Sciences Unit (MED (formerly EMRC))
Rosita Cottone, Deputy Head of Unit at Federal Ministry of Education
and Research (BMBF), guest at MED (formerly EMRC) Unit