Gaudenz Danuser has been appointed at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) as the inaugural chair of the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics since 2015. He holds the Patrick E. Haggerty Distinguished Chair in Basic Biomedical Science and is a Scholar of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Since March 2021, he has also been the director of the Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Systems Biology. Before moving to UTSW, Danuser led research laboratories at ETH Zurich (2002 – 2003), at The Scripps Research Institute (2003 – 2009), and at Harvard Medical School (2009 – 2014).

His lab’s research is focused on understanding the roles shape regulation play in metastatic cell proliferation and survival, and drug resistance. To address these questions the lab develops innovative quantitative imaging methods to experimentally probe these processes and uses machine learning, AI, and tools from financial mathematics to compile the data in mechanistic models. He is a devoted teacher in areas of computational cell biology and AI both at the institutional and international level.