Professor Christoffels is the director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) based at the University of the Western Cape. He is also the director of the SA Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Unit. For the past 10 years he has been the DST/NRF Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Health Genomics. His research lab focuses on infectious diseases and specifically building computational tools for analyzing high throughput genomics data (http://combattb.org). Among his software tools is the Baobab Laboratory Information Management System used by biobanks in Africa (http://baobablims.org). He serves on a number of international scientific advisory boards and on the editorial board of Data Journal.

Unit Director: Prof Alan Christoffels
5th Floor, Life Sciences Building, Robert Sobukwe Road
University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 7535
Tel office: 021 959 3645 
Email: alan@sanbi.ac.za
http://christoffels.sanbi.ac.za