Søren Brunak, Ph.D., holds the esteemed position of Professor of Disease Systems Biology at the University of Copenhagen, as well as the role of Medical Informatics Officer at Rigshospitalet, Capital Region of Denmark. He is renowned for his foundational contributions as the founding Director of the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark. Prof. Brunak has been extensively involved in the field of biological data integration, where machine learning techniques play a pivotal role in integrating predicted or experimentally established functional genome, metagenome, and proteome annotations. This distinguished pharmaceutical scientist actively collaborates on AI-driven drug discovery projects.