Dr. Mélanie Courtot’s team develops new software, databases and other necessary components to store, organize and compute over the large and complex datasets being generated by OICR’s cancer research programs. Her research focuses on new methods for improving data quality, based on knowledge representation, automated curation and added-value data of high quality for cancer related data. Dr Courtot is passionate about translational informatics – building intelligent systems to gain new insights to better predict patients’ health outcomes.
Dr Courtot holds a BSc in Biochemistry and MSc in Computer science (2002) from the Université Louis Pasteur, in Strasbourg, France, and a PhD in Bioinformatics (2014) from the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Website: https://oicr.on.ca/researchers/dr-melanie-courtot/