Christoph Bock
Christoph Bock works where single-cell biology, bioinformatics and machine learning meet. His work includes methods for sequencing cells, analyzing large biomedical datasets and developing interpretable deep learning. His coauthored publications include pooled CRISPR screening with single-cell readout in 2017 and multimodal learning for chat-based exploration of single-cell data in 2025. As of October 2026, Bock is a CeMM investigator, holds a medical-informatics professorship and leads the Medical University of Vienna’s AI institute. His collaborative work spans across experimental biology, computational methods and potential medical applications.
- Now at
- Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Medical University of Vienna
Timeline
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2016–2021
Research support and recognition
An ERC Starting Grant supported his work from 2016 to 2021, and he received the International Society for Computational Biology’s Overton Prize in 2017.
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2017
Single-cell readout for CRISPR screens
He coauthored work on pooled CRISPR screening with single-cell transcriptome readout. This connects experimental perturbations with measurements of individual cells and supports the lab’s wider work in bioinformatics.
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2021–2026
Interdisciplinary biomedical research
An ERC Consolidator Grant supported his work from 2021 to 2026. Its research directions include single-cell sequencing, CRISPR screening, algorithms for data analysis, interpretable deep learning and cell therapies. These directions involve a combined experimental and computational team.
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2025
Multimodal learning for cell data
A 2025 publication reports multimodal learning for chat-based exploration of single-cell data. As of October 2026, Bock is a CeMM investigator and leads the Medical University of Vienna’s AI institute.
Sources and credits
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