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i-Synapse was founded in 2011 by Ashley van Waardenberg and formed as a fully independent Australian based Company in 2012, operating locally and with clients across the globe.
Our focus is on helping you extract and translate meaningful insights from your data into tangible outcomes – partnering with researchers, clinicians and industry internationally.
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In one word - ‘collaborative’.
Every project starts with listening to your objectives and ends with something that we are proud to be a part of and share!
Read our FAQs, testimonials or contact us to learn more about our approach and how we can come together.
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Prior to founding i-Synapse PTY LTD, Ashley van Waardenberg completed a PhD in Systems Biology jointly between CSIRO (Australia’s Federal research organisation) and Griffith University, appreciating the value of Industry «—» Academic linkage, where he was a team recipient of the Chairman’s medal for contributions towards the assembly of the bovine genome (published in Science). Ashley has expensive research experience at leading Australian and International Research Organisations: Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (Sydney, Australia), Children’s Medical Research Institute (Sydney, Australia), European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, Germany), Australian Institute for Tropical Health and Medicine (Cairns, Australia). As an academic he has been named as a Chief or Associate Investigator on tier-1 grants and published numerous peer-reviewed research articles, statistical software and book chapters.
Passionate about community, he was also a co-founder of the not-for-profit professional association, Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS), to promote professional development and recognition of the emerging fields of bioinformatics and computational biology.