Jan O. Korbel

Jan O. Korbel (born 1975) is a German scientist working in the fields of Computational Biology, Human Genetics and Genomics. He is a Group Leader and Senior Scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany. His main research interests is in determinants and consequences of germline and somatic genetic variation, and the relationship thereof with human disease.^[1] A particular focus of the Korbel group is on understanding a particular form of mutation, known as genomic structural variation formation, occurring in healthy individuals and in cancer patients.

After receiving his PhD in 2005 from Humboldt University of Berlin, he performed his postdoctoral research at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA).

Jan Korbel is an editorial board member for the journal Cell^[2]. Additionally, he is on the editorial boards of Genome Research^[3] and Genome Biology^[4] as well as on the Advisory Editorial Board of Molecular Systems Biology^[5]. He has been awarded both a Starting Grant as well as a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC)^[6].

He is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina^[7] (2015). Since 2016, he is also an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)^[8]. He received the Chica and Heinz Schaller Research Award for young investigators in 2014, and the Martin Fuchs Prize for interdisciplinary/ethico-legal research focused on scientific self-regulation in biomedicine and human genetics in 2015. In 2018, Jan Korbel received the Pezcoller Foundation–EACR (European Association for Cancer Research) Cancer Researcher Award^[9] for his group's human genetics research focused on cancer.

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