Teresa Przytycka receiving a PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Teresa Przytycka's research has been concentrated on the theory of algorithms until, as a Sloan/DOE Computational Biology fellow, she started to apply algorithmic approaches to problems in Molecular and Systems biology. As an NIH Senior Investigator, she is heading a research group that focuses on computational modelling and analysis of biological processes, with an emphasis on hypothesis and theory-driven questions that are enabled by large-scale data.