Alumni

Former Postdocs and Research Scientists

  1. Mary Sara McPeek (1994-1995) Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago.

  2. Paul Marjoram (1995-1998) Professor of Research Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine

  3. Jae K. Lee (1995-1997) Senior Member, Moffitt Cancer Centre

  4. Sophie Schbath (1996) Director of Research & Head, MaIAGE laboratory, INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas, France

  5. Anna Pluzhnikov (1996-1998) Research Associate, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago

  6. Semyon Kruglyak (1998-2000) Head of Informatics, Element Biosciences, San Diego

  7. Daniela Golinelli (2000-2002) Research Professor, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, Philadelphia, PA.

  8. Noah Rosenberg (2001-2004) Stanford Professorship in Population Genetics and Society, Department of Biology, Stanford University

  9. Peter Calabrese (2001-2004) Professor (Teaching) of Quantitative and Computational Biology, USC

  10. Pierre Nicolas (2004–2005) Researcher in MaIAGE laboratory, INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas, France

  11. Claudia Rangel Escareno (2003-2006) Principal Investigator, Computational and Integrative Biology, Instituto Nacional de Medicina, Mexico

  12. Andrew E. Teschendorff (Cambridge, 2005-2006) CAS-MPG Computational Biology Institute & Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, and UCL Cancer Institute

  13. Natalie P. Thorne (Cambridge, 2004-2008) Chief Scientific Officer, Genomical, Melbourne, Australia

  14. Irene Tiemann-Boege (Cambridge, 2007-2008) Associate Professor and Group Leader, Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

  15. Matthew E. Ritchie (Cambridge, 2006-2008) Laboratory Head, WEHI, Melbourne.

  16. Nuno Barbosa-Morais (Cambridge, 2005-2010) Research Group Leader, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Lisbon

  17. Christina Curtis (Cambridge, 2007-2010) RZ Cao Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University

  18. Audrey Fu (Cambridge, 2008-2011) Associate Professor in Biostatistics, Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine

  19. Nick Marko (AANS Van Wagenen Fellow, 2011-2012) Director of Neurosurgery at LewisGale Regional Health System, Roanoke, Virginia

  20. Ernest Turro (Cambridge, 2011-2012) Associate Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai Health System, New York

  21. Benilton Carvalho (Cambridge, 2010-2012) Professor, Computational Biology and Biostatistics Laboratory, University of Campinas, Brazil

  22. Nick Shannon (Cambridge, 2011–2013; joint with Fitzgerald ICGC group) Head and Neck Fellow, Wollongong General Hospital, Australia.

  23. Inma Spiteri (Senior Scientific Officer, Cambridge, 2009-2014) Roche

  24. Shamith Samarajiwa (2006-2014) Senior Lecturer in Genomics, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London

  25. Charlie Massie (2013-2014; joint with Neal ICGC group) Deceased 5.5.23

  26. Achilleas Achilleos (2013--2014; joint with Fitzgerald ICGC group) Associate Senior Bioinformatician, NIPD Genetics, Cyprus

  27. Anestis Touloumis (Cambridge, 2011-2015, joint with J. Marioni, EBI) Principal Lecturer, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton

  28. Mike Smith (Cambridge, 2013-2015) Senior Scientific Software Developer, EMBL

  29. Maria Secrier (2014-2016; joint with Fitzgerald ICGC group) Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL.

  30. Edward Morrissey (Cambridge, 2011-2016) Director, Data Sciences and Quantitative Biology, AstraZeneca, Cambridge

  31. Andy Lynch (Associate Scientist, CI, 2006-2017) Professor of Statistics in Bioscience, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews

  32. Jakub Truszkowski  (Cambridge, 2014-2017, joint with N. Goldman, EBI) Physical Resource Theory, Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University

  33. 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.

  34. Juliane Perner (2015-2018; joint with Fitzgerald ICGC group) Associate Director and Senior Principal, Data Science, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), Basel

  35. Daniele Biasci (Cambridge, 2015-2018) Group Leader (Innovation Investigator track), Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford.

  36. Sarah Field (Cambridge, 2015-2019) Research Associate, Metzakopian Lab, UK Dementia Research Centre, University of Cambridge

  37. Sri Ganesh Jammula (2017-2020; joint with Fitzgerald ICGC group) Associate Director, Bioinformatics. MedGenome Labs Ltd., Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  38. Mingzhang Yin (2020-2022; joint with David Blei) Assistant Professor, Warrington College of Business (Marketing Department), University of Florida

  39. Alvin Ng (2019–2022; joint with R. Fitzgerald) President’s Fellowship, NTU, Singapore

  40. Arash Jamshidpey (2020-2022) Neyman Visiting Professor, Statistics Department, UC Berkeley

  41. Khanh Ngoc Dinh (2019-2023) Associate Research Scientist, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University

  42. Poly Hannah Da Silva (2020-2023)

  43. Brian Trippe (2022-2024; joint with David Blei) Assistant Professor, Statistics, Stanford University

  44. 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.

  45. Maithê de Barros (2024-present, joint with K. Nowicki-Osuch, DKFZ)

  46. Ren-Yi Wang (2025-present)

Former Research Students

  1. P. J. Joyce (PhD 1988) Dean, College of Science & Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Idaho. Sept 26 1958 - Apr 22 2016

  2. R. S. Lundstrom (PhD 1990) Senior Software Engineer Supervisor, TDW, Salt Lake City, Utah

  3. L. Markovtsova (PhD 2000) Senior Director, Oncology Biostatistics, Pfizer, San Diego

  4. O. Will (PhD 2001) Research Scientist, Kantar Health

  5. J. Wu (PhD 2001) Model validation analyst, PNC Financial Services Group

  6. K. Millman (PhD 2005) The Millman Clinic, San Jose

  7. D. Abdueva (PhD 2006) Co-founder and CEO, BloodQ, CA.

  8. D. Skvortsov (PhD 2006) Product Development Scientist, ABB Group, CA.

  9. R. Jiang (PhD 2006) Biostatistician and Bioinformatician, GRAIL Inc

  10. V. Plagnol (PhD 2006) Head of Precision Health, Genomics plc.

  11. O. Sargsyan (PhD 2006) Bioinformatics Scientist, Centrillion Biosciences Inc., Palo Alto, CA

  12. W. Xu (PhD 2006) Immuno-Metabolic Computational Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

  13. R. Alaghband (PhD 2007) Management Consulting, Montreal, Canada

  14. C. Curtis (PhD 2007) RZ Cao Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University

  15. J. C. Marioni (PhD 2007) SVP and Head of Computation, gRED, Genentech, San Francisco.

  16. R. D. Wilkinson (PhD 2007) Professor of Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham

  17. M. J. Dunning (PhD 2008) Bioinformatics Core, Director, Sheffield Institute for Translational neuroscience, University of Sheffield

  18. I. Manolopoulou (PhD 2009) Associate Professor, Department of Statistical Science, University College London

  19. T. Hardcastle (PhD 2009) [joint with JD Brenton]  deceased  18.3.20

  20. D. Grover (PhD 2009) Assistant Project Scientist, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, UCSD

  21. L. D. Goldstein (PhD 2010) Head, Computational Biology, Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics at Garvan Institute of Medical Research Sydney, Australia

  22. C. Spyrou (PhD 2010) Principal Statistician, Nielsen Holdings, Cyprus

  23. S. Ivakhno (PhD 2011) Lead Machine Learning Specialist, Headstart, London

  24. S. Knott (PhD 2011) [joint with O. Aparicio] Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Cedars Sinai Medical Institute

  25. D. C. Speed (PhD 2011) Professor, Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Denmark

  26. J. Woolford (PhD 2011) [joint with EA Miska]

  27. A. Sottoriva (PhD 2012) Head of Computational Biology Research Centre, Human Technopole, Milan.

  28. R. Ardekani (PhD 2013) Machine Learning/Computer Vision, Apple

  29. M. L. Smith (PhD 2013) Senior Scientific Programmer, EMBL

  30. T. Nellimoottil (PhD 2013) SVP data, Playboy

  31. J. Cairns (PhD 2014) Senior Data Scientist (Statistics), AstraZeneca.

  32. D. Andrews (PhD 2015) Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina Inc.

  33. M. Josephidou (PhD 2017) Machine Learning Software Engineer, Facebook

  34. M. Abbasi (PhD 2011–2017; USC, joint with P. Marjoram) Director, Bioinformatics, Exact Science

  35. A. Wendler (PhD 2019; joint with C. Watts) Senior Scientist (Oncology and Cell Biology), Vernalis, Cambridge.

  36. E. H. Williams (PhD 2020) Quantitative Analyst, Nanook, London

  37. M. Gürel (PhD 2020) Senior Data Scientist, CompBio, Owkin

  38. R. Kunes (PhD 2024) Voleon Capital Management, New York

  39. B. K. Wesley (current)

  40. T. Giorgadze (current)