Dr. Peter Robinson awarded Humboldt Professorship
We are pleased to report that Monarch multi-PI Peter Robinson, MD, MSc, has been selected for an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence. This very prestigious professorship is the most highly-endowed research award in Germany.
Dr. Robinson was previously a professor of computational biology at the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, CT. He received an B.A. in Mathematics and a MSc. in Computer Science from Columbia University in New Yerk, an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and did his training in pediatrics at Charité Berlin.
Dr. Robinson is known for his pioneering work in the Monarch Initiative, including launching and expanding the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO), used internationally to diagnose hereditary and other rare diseases, designing the Phenopacket Schema, and played a major role in the development of the Exomiser tool. In addition to being one of three multi-PIs on the Monarch Initiative, Dr. Robinson is also a multi-PI on the HPO and Exomiser grants.
In his new position at the Berlin Institute of Health of the Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin,which started on January 1, 2024, Dr. Robinson will develop algorithms for AI-based precision medicine.
Congratulations, Peter!
