Prof Winston Hide applies systems approaches to reveal and drug critical disease processes occurring in infectious disease, cancer and neurodegeneration. Applied to discovery and prioritization of key pathways and processes, these systems approaches have been successfully adopted by industry for translational pipelines for target prioritization.
He performed his postdoctoral training at the University of Texas, Houston, at the Baylor College of Medicine and at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History. Prof Hide gained industry experience in Silicon Valley at the MasPar Computer Corporation while serving as Director of genomics.
He founded the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, where he Co-Authored the South African Government Biotechnology Strategy. Prof Hide won the Oppenheimer Foundation Distinguished Sabbatical Research Fellowship in 2007 and received the Oppenheimer medal. Elected into the Academy of Science of South Africa in 2007, Prof Hide was the first recipient of the "International Society for Computational Biology Award for Outstanding Achievement," given in recognition of his work for the development of computational biology and bioinformatics in Africa.
Prof Hide became Chair of Computational Biology at the Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience and Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, UK. In 2018 he moved to Harvard Medical School where, at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he now leads a noncoding translational medicine team.
View profile for Winston Hide in: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), (2017). Legends of South African Science. [Online] Available at: DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2016/0012
