Nick Tsinoremas

Dr. NicK Tsinoremas is currently the founding Director of Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) at the University of Miami and Research Professor at the department of Medicine Miller School of Medicine.

The Center focuses on  Scientific and High Performance Computing, ranging from Computational Physics and Chemistry to Bioinformatics and Biomedical informatics to Data Mining and Visualization.

Tsinoremas received his B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Athens, Greece, and his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Leeds, UK. Before joining the University of Miami he served as Senior Director of  Informatics at The Scripps Research Institute- Florida.  There he recruited and managed the Informatics and IT groups for the newly formed Scripps Florida.

 In the past, he was Director of Computational Genomics and Genomic Discovery at Rosetta/Merck where he directed the project that combined informatics and computational approaches with gene expression profiling and genetics to discover, prioritize, and define drug target genes.  Prior to working for Merck/Rosetta, Tsinoremas was the Vice-President of Genomics at DoubleTwist Inc., where he determined the scientific direction of DoubleTwist’s bioinformatics applications and databases.

He also held informatics positions at Incyte Genomics and Progenitor Inc.