Bio

I am a computational biologist by training. I am interested in most biological problems amenable to genomic and computational analyses, albeit mostly focused on rare diseases these days. In particular, on their diagnosis, prognosis and treatment in children through genomic means.

However, we still dabble in evolutionary and population genomics when it helps our disease work, for example to understand the natural history of micronutrient deficiencies in humans. Such deficiencies are a major global health problem today, particularly during pregnancy, infancy and early childhood.

I am also interested in rapidly deploying new genomic approaches in the hospital setting.

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I have wandered a bit over the years but currently in London, Prof of Genomics at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health, working closely with great colleagues at the Institute and the Great Ormond Street Hospital in our shared Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children.

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