Short biography
Fran Supek is an ICREA professor based at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). Fran leads the Genome Data Science laboratory (https://www.genomedatalab.org/) dealing with statistical genomics of genetic disease esp. cancer evolution. Fran obtained a PhD in Molecular biology in 2010 from the U. of Zagreb, while working as an early-stage researcher at the RBI, Croatia. Following a postdoctoral stay at the Centre for Genomic Regulation as a Marie Curie fellow, in 2017 he started his group at IRB as a Ramón y Cajal fellow. Fran was the PI of ERC StG "HYPER-INSIGHT" and is PI on CoG "STRUCTOMATIC", on Horizon EU projects "DECIDER" and "LUCIA", coordinator of a CaixaResearch project "POTENT-IMMUNO", and an EMBO Young Investigator. Fran authored 55 research papers, of that 13 as first and 24 as senior/corresponding author (16/24 in top-10% journals incl Nat Genet, Sci Adv, Nat Commun, NAR etc.) and additionally 3 invited review articles, cited >11,600 times (H-index=34).
