The European Life-science Infrastructure for Biological Information's interim board has tapped Niklas Blomberg to serve as ELIXIR's founding director.
Blomberg is a principal scientist and team leader in computational chemistry and computational biology at AstraZeneca's Mölndal, Sweden-based office. He has a bachelor's of science degree in chemistry from Göteborg University and a doctorate in structural biology and bioinformatics from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.