Biography:
Dr. R. Andrew Paskauskas is a multidisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of biomedical science,
computational intelligence, and information security. He currently serves as Senior Research Associate and
Ontology Architect at the Lithuanian Cybercrime Centre of Excellence for Training, Research and Education (L3CE),
where he leads research on the HIPSTer (Hybrid Information Psychological Societal Threats) framework – an EU-
funded initiative developing semantic intelligence capabilities for detecting coordinated in�luence operations and
health misinformation.
His long-standing collaboration with Dr. William G. Tucker produced the MSMV (Multiple Sclerosis Measles Virus)
Hypothesis (Tucker & Paskauskas, 2008, Medical Hypotheses), which posits that measles virus strains may persist
in the central nervous system, potentially contributing to chronic neurodegenerative conditions. This research has
gained renewed relevance amid current measles outbreaks driven by vaccine hesitancy and declining herd
immunity.
Dr. Paskauskas holds an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Science and Technology
from the University of Toronto, where he specialised in the history of medical psychology, neurosciences, and the
early neurological work of Ernest Jones and Sigmund Freud. His doctoral research culminated in the publication of
the Complete Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones (1908–1939) by Harvard University Press, a
seminal work in medical and psychoanalytic history.
As a Canada Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, he continued research into historical
and neurological aspects of psychoanalytic theory. His supervisor at McGill was among the laureates who received
the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).
Expanding into computational biology, Dr. Paskauskas later served as Chief Scientist under Dr. Tucker at
Biomolecular Pharma, a Canadian university spin-off focused on biopharmaceutical innovation in brain cancer and
MS research. His bioinformatics work included computational modelling of Synencephalin in the laboratory of Dr.
David Baker, awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design.
As principal Keynote Speaker and Chair of the Infectious Diseases Conference (Dubai, March 2025), Dr. Paskauskas
demonstrated the application of STARDOG knowledge graph technologies to neuro-infectious disease pathways and
hybrid/public biothreat scenarios. His current research integrates Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), Social Media
Intelligence (SOCMINT), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to address health misinformation and strengthen
public health resilience in an era where the information environment is as consequential as the disease
environment.