Walter Schubert

ToposNomos Ltd., Germany

Biography

Walter Schubert is founder and director of the international human toponome Project, and he is the head of the Molecular Pattern Recognition Research (MPRR) group at the Medical Faculty of the Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany, and guest Professor for Toponomics at the Max-Planck-CAS (CAS-MPG) partner Institute for computational biology, Shanghai, China. Walter Schubert has studied medicine at the universities of Aachen and Bonn, Germany, and has led the neuromuscular diagnostic center at the university of Bonn. He has invented and developed during his clinical work the toponome imaging robot technology MELC/TIS in 1990 (to decipher the protein networks in humans), is co-initiator of the course of studies in computervisualistics (CV) at Magdeburg university (MDU), and teaches human biology for students in CV and medicine at the MDU. Walter Schubert holds many patents, has received several national and international awards and honours, such as the american ISAC best paper award 2008 (for the three symbol code of organized proteomes, \"toponome\"), and has launched the human toponome project aiming at the functional decoding of the protein networks in humans.rnrnHe is keynote speaker at international congresses (presenting the human toponome project), invited distinguished lecturer at the Case Western Reserve University (2010), and member of several american and european editorial and scientific advisory boards. WS chaired three interdisciplinary national joint projects of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the BMBF (at MDU, and transnational) connecting engineering, informatics, medicine and cell biology in the field of toponomics. The work of the his Magdeburg group and coworkers has been acknowledged by a Research Highlight \"Mapping togetherness\" (Nature 443, p 609, 2006).rnrn