Alumni
Former Postdocs and Research Scientists
Mary Sara McPeek (1994-1995) Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago.
Paul Marjoram (1995-1998) Professor of Research Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine
Jae K. Lee (1995-1997) Senior Member, Moffitt Cancer Centre
Sophie Schbath (1996) Director of Research & Head, MaIAGE laboratory, INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Anna Pluzhnikov (1996-1998) Research Associate, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago
Semyon Kruglyak (1998-2000) Head of Informatics, Element Biosciences, San Diego
Daniela Golinelli (2000-2002) Research Professor, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, Philadelphia, PA.
Noah Rosenberg (2001-2004) Stanford Professorship in Population Genetics and Society, Department of Biology, Stanford University
Peter Calabrese (2001-2004) Professor (Teaching) of Quantitative and Computational Biology, USC
Pierre Nicolas (2004–2005) Researcher in MaIAGE laboratory, INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Claudia Rangel Escareno (2003-2006) Principal Investigator, Computational and Integrative Biology, Instituto Nacional de Medicina, Mexico
Andrew E. Teschendorff (Cambridge, 2005-2006) CAS-MPG Computational Biology Institute & Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, and UCL Cancer Institute
Natalie P. Thorne (Cambridge, 2004-2008) Chief Scientific Officer, Genomical, Melbourne, Australia
Irene Tiemann-Boege (Cambridge, 2007-2008) Associate Professor and Group Leader, Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Matthew E. Ritchie (Cambridge, 2006-2008) Laboratory Head, WEHI, Melbourne.
Nuno Barbosa-Morais (Cambridge, 2005-2010) Research Group Leader, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Lisbon
Christina Curtis (Cambridge, 2007-2010) RZ Cao Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
Audrey Fu (Cambridge, 2008-2011) Associate Professor in Biostatistics, Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Nick Marko (AANS Van Wagenen Fellow, 2011-2012) Director of Neurosurgery at LewisGale Regional Health System, Roanoke, Virginia
Ernest Turro (Cambridge, 2011-2012) Associate Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai Health System, New York
Benilton Carvalho (Cambridge, 2010-2012) Professor, Computational Biology and Biostatistics Laboratory, University of Campinas, Brazil
Nick Shannon (Cambridge, 2011–2013; joint with Fitzgerald ICGC group) Head and Neck Fellow, Wollongong General Hospital, Australia.
Inma Spiteri (Senior Scientific Officer, Cambridge, 2009-2014) Roche
Shamith Samarajiwa (2006-2014) Senior Lecturer in Genomics, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London
Charlie Massie (2013-2014; joint with Neal ICGC group) Deceased 5.5.23
Achilleas Achilleos (2013--2014; joint with Fitzgerald ICGC group) Associate Senior Bioinformatician, NIPD Genetics, Cyprus
Anestis Touloumis (Cambridge, 2011-2015, joint with J. Marioni, EBI) Principal Lecturer, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton
Mike Smith (Cambridge, 2013-2015) Senior Scientific Software Developer, EMBL
Maria Secrier (2014-2016; joint with Fitzgerald ICGC group) Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL.
Edward Morrissey (Cambridge, 2011-2016) Director, Data Sciences and Quantitative Biology, AstraZeneca, Cambridge
Andy Lynch (Associate Scientist, CI, 2006-2017) Professor of Statistics in Bioscience, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews
Jakub Truszkowski (Cambridge, 2014-2017, joint with N. Goldman, EBI) Physical Resource Theory, Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University
Alexey Larionov (Cambridge, 2013–2018; joint with M. Tischkowitz. ERC grant) Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Centre for Soil, Agrifood and Biosciences, Cranfield University, UK.
Juliane Perner (2015-2018; joint with Fitzgerald ICGC group) Associate Director and Senior Principal, Data Science, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), Basel
Daniele Biasci (Cambridge, 2015-2018) Group Leader (Innovation Investigator track), Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford.
Sarah Field (Cambridge, 2015-2019) Research Associate, Metzakopian Lab, UK Dementia Research Centre, University of Cambridge
Sri Ganesh Jammula (2017-2020; joint with Fitzgerald ICGC group) Associate Director, Bioinformatics. MedGenome Labs Ltd., Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Mingzhang Yin (2020-2022; joint with David Blei) Assistant Professor, Warrington College of Business (Marketing Department), University of Florida
Alvin Ng (2019–2022; joint with R. Fitzgerald) President’s Fellowship, NTU, Singapore
Arash Jamshidpey (2020-2022) Neyman Visiting Professor, Statistics Department, UC Berkeley
Khanh Ngoc Dinh (2019-2023) Associate Research Scientist, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University
Poly Hannah Da Silva (2020-2023)
Brian Trippe (2022-2024; joint with David Blei) Assistant Professor, Statistics, Stanford University
Ignacio Vázquez-García (2020-2024, joint with Sohrab Shah) Assistant Professor, HMS/MGH Departments of Pathology and the MGH Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research, Harvard.
Maithê de Barros (2024-present, joint with K. Nowicki-Osuch, DKFZ)
Ren-Yi Wang (2025-present)
Former Research Students
P. J. Joyce (PhD 1988) Dean, College of Science & Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Idaho. Sept 26 1958 - Apr 22 2016
R. S. Lundstrom (PhD 1990) Senior Software Engineer Supervisor, TDW, Salt Lake City, Utah
L. Markovtsova (PhD 2000) Senior Director, Oncology Biostatistics, Pfizer, San Diego
O. Will (PhD 2001) Research Scientist, Kantar Health
J. Wu (PhD 2001) Model validation analyst, PNC Financial Services Group
K. Millman (PhD 2005) The Millman Clinic, San Jose
D. Abdueva (PhD 2006) Co-founder and CEO, BloodQ, CA.
D. Skvortsov (PhD 2006) Product Development Scientist, ABB Group, CA.
R. Jiang (PhD 2006) Biostatistician and Bioinformatician, GRAIL Inc
V. Plagnol (PhD 2006) Head of Precision Health, Genomics plc.
O. Sargsyan (PhD 2006) Bioinformatics Scientist, Centrillion Biosciences Inc., Palo Alto, CA
W. Xu (PhD 2006) Immuno-Metabolic Computational Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
R. Alaghband (PhD 2007) Management Consulting, Montreal, Canada
C. Curtis (PhD 2007) RZ Cao Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
J. C. Marioni (PhD 2007) SVP and Head of Computation, gRED, Genentech, San Francisco.
R. D. Wilkinson (PhD 2007) Professor of Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham
M. J. Dunning (PhD 2008) Bioinformatics Core, Director, Sheffield Institute for Translational neuroscience, University of Sheffield
I. Manolopoulou (PhD 2009) Associate Professor, Department of Statistical Science, University College London
T. Hardcastle (PhD 2009) [joint with JD Brenton] deceased 18.3.20
D. Grover (PhD 2009) Assistant Project Scientist, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, UCSD
L. D. Goldstein (PhD 2010) Head, Computational Biology, Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics at Garvan Institute of Medical Research Sydney, Australia
C. Spyrou (PhD 2010) Principal Statistician, Nielsen Holdings, Cyprus
S. Ivakhno (PhD 2011) Lead Machine Learning Specialist, Headstart, London
S. Knott (PhD 2011) [joint with O. Aparicio] Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Cedars Sinai Medical Institute
D. C. Speed (PhD 2011) Professor, Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Denmark
J. Woolford (PhD 2011) [joint with EA Miska]
A. Sottoriva (PhD 2012) Head of Computational Biology Research Centre, Human Technopole, Milan.
R. Ardekani (PhD 2013) Machine Learning/Computer Vision, Apple
M. L. Smith (PhD 2013) Senior Scientific Programmer, EMBL
T. Nellimoottil (PhD 2013) SVP data, Playboy
J. Cairns (PhD 2014) Senior Data Scientist (Statistics), AstraZeneca.
D. Andrews (PhD 2015) Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina Inc.
M. Josephidou (PhD 2017) Machine Learning Software Engineer, Facebook
M. Abbasi (PhD 2011–2017; USC, joint with P. Marjoram) Director, Bioinformatics, Exact Science
A. Wendler (PhD 2019; joint with C. Watts) Senior Scientist (Oncology and Cell Biology), Vernalis, Cambridge.
E. H. Williams (PhD 2020) Quantitative Analyst, Nanook, London
M. Gürel (PhD 2020) Senior Data Scientist, CompBio, Owkin
R. Kunes (PhD 2024) Voleon Capital Management, New York
B. K. Wesley (current)
T. Giorgadze (current)