Christoph Sensen

Christoph Sensen is the Pricipal Investigator of the Sun Microsystems Centre for Excellence for Visual Genomics, a $6-million dollar revolutionary facility at the University of Calgary. As The National Postreported in March, the Centre will allow researchers to “….view three-dimensional models of cells in a room similar to the holodeck in the Star Trek television series”, thus potentially fast tracking cures for complex genetic disorders like cancers, diabetes and Alzheimer’s.

Sensen has been a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine since 2001. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University, in the Department of Biochemistry.

He studied in Germany, and has a B.Sc. in Biology from the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz, a Master’s degree from the Heinrich Heine University in Dussseldorf and his Ph.D. from the University of Koln.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Calgary, Sensen was a Senior Research Officer with the Institute for Marine Biosciences at the National Research Council. In 1998, he won the NRC Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Canadian Bioinformatics Resource Team.