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Andreas Dräger
Dräger at theInternational Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB) in Okinawa 2019
Born	(1980-09-20)20 September 1980 (age 45) Wippra,East Germany
Alma mater	University of Tübingen (PhD) Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
Known for	Mathematical modelling of infectious disease,JSBML
Children	three
Awards	iGEMbronze medal (2016) andgold medal (2014) F1000presentation award (2016) Dissertation award (2011)
Scientific career
Fields	Computational biology Bioinformatics Software engineering Systems biology
Institutions	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg University of Tübingen University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Keio University University of Illinois Chicago Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Thesis	Computational Modeling of Biochemical Networks (2011)
Doctoral advisor	Andreas Zell
Other academic advisors	Oliver Kohlbacher Bernhard Ø. Palsson Akira Funahashi Simon Silver Richard Reinhard
Website	uni-tuebingen.de/en/127116

Andreas Dräger (German:[anˈdʁeːasˈdʁɛːɡɐ]; born 20 September 1980) is a German bioinformatician who leads the research group forData Analytics andBioinformatics at theMartin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

In high school, Dräger was fascinated bycomputer science and recent advancements ingenetics andbiotechnology in the late 1990s. When he learned about a new degree program that allowed combining those technologies, he was immediately inspired. So, Dräger studiedbioinformatics at theMartin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg inHalle (Saale) from 2000 to 2006. He worked as an intern forgenome sequencing at theMax Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics,Berlin. He prepared his thesis about heavy-metal-resistant bacteria at themicrobiology department of theUniversity of Illinois atChicago. Dräger earned hisdoctorate at the Center for Bioinformatics inTübingen (ZBIT), focusing on thedynamic simulation ofmetabolic networks in avirtual liver. During this time, he worked as a visiting research student forsoftware engineering atKeio University inYokohama in 2010. After returning from Japan, the Faculty of Science of theUniversity of Tübingen honored his thesis with the 2011 dissertation award.^[a]

In early 2011, Dräger received funding for an independent research project as a postdoctoral junior group leader. In 2013, he undertook another two-year postdoc program as a Marie-Curie research scholar inLa Jolla. He worked in the Systems Biology Research Group at theUCSD (the University of California,San Diego). Upon returning to Tübingen in 2015, he founded an independent research group at the university. In 2018 he was appointed asjunior professor forComputational Systems Biology of Infections and Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens within Tübingen's newly established interfaculty Institute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics (IBMI). His research group belonged to Tübingen'sCluster of Excellence, "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections" (CMFI). In February 2024, Dräger was appointed as a university professor and has since held the chair of data analytics and bioinformatics at theMartin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg,^[b] while his group remains part of the German National Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at theUniversity of Tübingen.

Andreas Dräger's research focuses onmathematical models of the metabolic mechanisms behind antibiotic resistance. The central aspect of his research group is thehuman microbiome living within the airways from thenasal cavities to thelung. Dräger aims to identify new ways to combat life-threatening bacterial^[1][2]and viral infections.^[3][4]Hospital-acquired infections of therespiratory tract have the highest priority of the effort because this often involves germs with multi-resistance against antibiotic treatment. Particularly harmful bacteria in this habitat includePseudomonas aeruginosa^[5][2] andStaphylococcus aureus.^[1] Another research area involves risk groups, such ascystic fibrosis patients. Applyingmetabolic network modeling for this endeavor requires a comprehensive understanding of the underlying processes of mutual interactions betweenpathogens,commensal bacteria, and theirhost.^[6][7]

This work also requires developing specialized software to create, analyze, and share computer models insystems biology in general. For this reason, the group is also actively involved in severalstandardization efforts in systems biology^[8] that are part of the initiatives by theComputational Modeling in Biology Network of international researchers.Dräger sees improvedinteroperability and reuse of the developed computer models according to the principles ofFAIR data (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) as a prerequisite for the reliable implementation ofcomputer simulation in biology.^[9] To this end, Dräger and his group develop scientificopen-source software, such asJSBML orSBSCL.^[10]In 2015, the scientific community elected him as an editor for developing the systems biologyfile formatSBML and in 2018 as an editor for the graphical modeling languageSBGN.^[11]In 2016, Dräger was one of the founders of the annual community meeting with a special interest in systems modeling (SysMod)^[12] within theInternational Society of Computational Biology (ISCB), where he served as thede facto chairman from 2018 until he stepped down in 2022.^[13]

During theCOVID-19 pandemic, Dräger's work regarding computational modeling ofSARS-CoV-2 within human cells^[14][15]raised international interest^{[c][d][e][f][g][h][i]}because it predicted potentially exploitable targets for drug development. One of those is the human enzymeguanylate kinase. Dräger's ongoing work on this topic focuses on pandemic preparedness.^[16]

For over three years, he offered a course inbioinformatics andsystems biology for high school students at the "Otto-Hahn" high school inNagold, including mentorship in theYouth Researches competition.^[j]

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