Johann de Jong, PhD
Team Lead Statistical Modeling
Johann de Jong obtained his PhD in Computational Cancer Biology from Delft University of Technology. Since then, he has gained experience in a wide variety of domains, ranging from gene regulation and chromatin biology to cancer research and neurological disorders, in both academia (the Netherlands Cancer Institute) and industry (BASF, UCB Pharma). He currently leads the Statistical Modeling team within Human Genetics at Boehringer Ingelheim, which focuses on developing and applying novel machine learning and statistical models for biomarker/target identification and patient stratification by integrating prior knowledge with multi-modal and longitudinal data sources including human biobanks.