Klaus Heumann
Chief Executive Officer
Bioinformatics & systembiology
Biomax Informatics
United States of America
Biography
Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Heumann is one of the company’s co-founders and has been Chief Executive Officer of Biomax since its foundation. Heumann has lead the evolution of Biomax from a classic bioinformatics company to one of the leading knowledge management companies for the life sciences and healthcare. He brought together innovative and highly qualified life scientists, computer scientists and engineers to build a multidisciplinary team that truly understands the diverse challenges and underlying business and R&D processes in the wider life sciences arena. Heumann earned his PhD from the Technische Universität München (TUM) and was part of the Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS) team that published the first sequenced eukaryotic genome, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. He led the project to compile the results on the yeast genome CD-ROM published by Science and Nature magazines. In 1996, Dr. Heumann received the Heinz Billing Prize of the Max Planck Society for his work on “Identification and visualization of duplications in the yeast genome.”
Research Interest
Bioinformatics & systembiology
