Vladimir Brusic, PhD, MBA, is the head of the BioDiscovery group at the Laboratories for Information Science in Singapore. Between 1989 and 1998 he was a bioinformatician at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Dr Brusic holds degrees in biomedical engineering, information technology, bioinformatics and business administration. He has published more than 50 articles in a wide range of bioinformatic fields. His current work includes computational modelling of biological systems, computational simulations of laboratory experiments, functional genomics, and biological data warehousing.