Christoph Bock, Ph.D.
CeMM Principal Investigator
cbock@cemm.oeaw.ac.at

CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine
Lazarettgasse 14, AKH BT 25.3, A-1090 Vienna
Tel +43-1/40160-70 070
Fax +43-1/40160-970 000

Main research interests
+ Epigenomics. Mapping epigenetic regulation in blood and immune cells
+ Bioinformatics. Developing methods for analyzing DNA methylation data
+ Diagnostics. Utilizing biomarkers for personalized cancer therapy

Christoph Bock joined CeMM as a Principal Investigator in January 2012. His research group focuses on medical epigenomics, utilizing both computational and experimental methods (link). Christoph is also affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna (as a guest professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine) and he runs the joint NGS facility of the CeMM and the Medical University, providing high-throughput sequencing for medical research and diagnostics.

Christoph studied bioinformatics, computer science and business administration at the University of Mannheim and the University of Heidelberg. He completed his PhD in bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and did a postdoc in epigenomics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In parallel, Christoph led a junior research group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (link), developing algorithms for DNA methylation analysis. He has been awarded an Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society for pioneering work in computational epigenetics. Recent publications include papers in Cell, Science, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Genetics, Nature Methods, Genome Research, Genome Biology, PLoS Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (link).

At CeMM, Christoph works with the BLUEPRINT consortium (link) on studying epigenome dynamics of blood cell differentiation and associated disorders, and he develops the computational and experimental methodology for using DNA methylation data in clinical diagnostics.

Lab website: http://medical-epigenomics.org/