Prof. Dr.

Julio Saez-Rodriguez

Projects:

Institute for Computational Biomedicine
University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
Germany
Im Neuenheimer Feld 130.3
69120 Heidelberg

Research Interests

Cancer, Auto-immune diseases.  Fibrotic diseases.

Selected Coordinating Functions and Awards

2025
Fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology
Since 2024
Head of Research, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton (EMBL-EBI), UK
2024, 2025
Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate
Since 2018
Full Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Analysis (on leave since 2024) Heidelberg University, Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany
2017
Best Young Investigator award of the Spanish Biotechnology Society
2017
Theodore von Kármán fellowship from RWTH Aachen for a short sabbatical at the Department of Renal Medicine of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA
2015-2024
Co-organizer & then SAB (2022–2024) of the SysMod – Computational Modeling of Biological Systems Special Interest Session at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)
2014 – 2016, 2019, 2022
Committee member of the International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB)
2010
BIO-IT World Best Practices Award with L Alexopoulos, I Melas, A Chairakaki, A Mitsos

CRC1550 Related Publications

2023

Multicellular factor analysis of single-cell data for a tissue-centric understanding of disease

Ramirez Flores, R. O., Lanzer, J. D., Dimitrov, D., Velten, B., & Saez-Rodriguez, J.

eLife 12:2023

2024

Complementing cell taxonomies with a multicellular analysis of tissues

Ramirez Flores, R. O., Schäfer, P. S. L., Küchenhoff, L., & Saez-Rodriguez, J.

Physiology (Bethesda). 39:0, 2024

2025

OmniPath: integrated knowledgebase for multi-omics analysis

• Turei, D., Schaul, J., Palacio-Escat, N., Bohar, B., Bai, Y., Ceccarelli, F., Cevrim, E., Daley, M., Darcan, M., Dimitrov, D., Dogan, T., Domingo-Fernandez, D., Dugourd, A., Gabor, A., Gul, L., Hall, B. A., Hoyt, C. T., Ivanova, O., Klein, M., . . . Saez-Rodriguez, J.

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.11.675512

2025

A cross-study transcriptional patient map of heart failure defines conserved multicellular coordination in cardiac remodeling

Lanzer JD, Ramirez Flores RO, Linares Blanco J, Steier M, Rangrez AY, Frey N & Saez-Rodriguez J.

Nature Communications 16:9659, 2025