Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Scientist at BC Cancer
Biography
Dr. Brinkman's research is focused on developing and applying flow cytometry bioinformatics approaches for big data, and has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in the field. He has led ISAC's Data Standards Task Force since 2005, including the development of the latest versions of the FCS standard used by all cytometers as well as the MIFlowCyt minimum annotation standard recommended by several journals including from Nature, PLOS and Wiley. In 2012 Dr. Brinkman launched FlowRepository, the only public repository for FCM data, with a focus in peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Brinkman has been recognized as an ISAC Scholar, a Terry Fox Research Institute Scholar and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar, and was honoured in 2018 with an ISAC Distinguished Service Award. He is a Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Scientist at BC Cancer.
