Professional Experience
2023 - Present
Senior Computational Biologist
Owkin
Building end-to-end machine learning applications for target discovery, drug positioning and biomarker ID.
Developed clinical and multi-omics data processing pipelines that have been applied to data generated from more than 2500 patients.
2021 - 2023
Bioinformatics Data Scientist
Benevolent AI
Technical lead on multiple drug discovery programs leading the data ingestion, processing and modelling strategy for novel disease mechanism discovery and target identification.
2017 - 2021
Bioinformatics and Cancer Immunology PhD student
Cancer Research UK
Analysed multi-omics oncology datasets to elucidate cancer inflammation and immune evasion mechanisms, as well as discovery biomarkers of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
2017 - 2021
Scientific Leader
Manchester Access Programme
Managed, tutored and guided A-level students through scientific research projects.
2015 - 2017
Early Clinical Development Scientist and In Vitro/Vivo Biologist
AstraZeneca
Planned and executed in vitro and in vivo studies to facilitate oncology drug discovery. Managed externally sponsored phase I/II basket trials as a member of the early clinical development team. Provided competitor intelligence/ disease landscaping.
2013 - 2014
Industrial Placement Student
GlaxoSmithKline
Performed compound screening in B cell and dendritic cell assays contributing towards the candidate selection data packages for autoimmune diseases.
2011 - 2015
Biomedical Science Student, First Class Degree
University of Sheffield
Physiology, cell biology, developmental biology, neuroscience, anatomy, biochemistry and more.
2004 - 2011
School Student
Wirral Grammer School
Maths A*, Biology A, Chemistry A