Authors

Denise is an Open Targets alumna; molecular biologist turned scientific outreach lead.

Communications Lead for Open Targets

Platform Coordinator for Open Targets

Software developer for the Open Targets Platform's backend team.

Product design and strategy lead in the Open Targets Platform team.

Director of Open Targets

David is the Executive Director of Open Targets. He first joined Open Targets in 2017 as Strategy and Operations Director.

Irene joined the Open Targets Platform team in October 2020 as a Bioinformatician in the Data Team.

Clare is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Medicines Discovery (University of Oxford) and UK Spine, working with Open Targets.

Senior Product Manager at Open Targets

Software engineer, helping to create and maintain backend conventions, principles, and patterns for our informatics projects, as well as designing and maintaining the data release process.

Glenn is an independent consultant. He worked on the Ensembl project, then led software development at Eagle Genomics. He helps clients with product advice, cloud strategy & software implementations.

Eliseo is an Open Targets alumnus. An ML engineer and doctor by training, he is looking for new ways of finding the next best targets.

Andrea was a lead back-end developer at Open Targets.

Software engineer and back end lead in the Open Targets core team

Statistical geneticist at Open Targets, working to integrate fine-mapping and functional genomics across all available GWAS.

Open Targets Informatics Science Director, overseeing and developing the informatics research programme.

Genetic Analysis team leader

Zoe was an ontologist in the Samples, Phenotypes and Ontologies team, working mostly on the Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO), improving and expanding the ontology to fit user data.

An Open Targets alum, and Irish molecular biologist based in the UK; hoping my accent doesn't confuse my colleagues too much. Interested in identifying new cancer drug targets.

Technical lead of the Open Targets Platform

Web developer in the Open Targets Platform team

Aidan is an Open Targets alumnus. He was a Computational Biologist working in industry, interested in applying network biology approaches to better understand biological mechanisms.

Software developer at the European Variation Archive

Holly is an Open Targets alum.

Carlos is a Web Developer for Open Targets, involved in the day-to-day maintenance of the web platforms, the improvements of the final user experience, and the implementation of new features.

Alfredo is a web developer in the Open Targets Platform front-end team.

Head of the Open Targets Validation Lab

Sebastian Gerety is a Senior Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Maria is a community manager at Europe PMC.

Michaela was a bioinformatician at Open Targets.

Eddie was a PhD student in the Trynka immune genomics group.

Senior Staff Scientist at the Sanger Institute working in the Cellular Operations research group.

Konstantinos is an Open Targets alum, previously a senior Software Engineer in Reactome

Postdoctoral Fellow in Open Targets developing new algorithms and computational tools for genomic characterisation of large panels of cancer models to identify new cancer drug targets.

Kostas is the Open Targets Platform's project manager. He keeps the team on track.

Scientific database curator in the Hermjakob team

Antonio is an Open Targets alumnus.

Melanie is a protein computational scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute, in Andrew Leach's group.

Asier was a bioinformatician at Open Targets.

Experimental Science Director at Open Targets and Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

I'm Fran, an Open Targets alum and postdoctoral researcher at Nuria Lopez Bigas team in IRB Barcelona. Interested in why and how somatic mutations driver tumorigenesis.

Paola was a previous member of the Samples, Phenotypes and Ontology team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).

Helen is an Open Targets alum.

Open Targets alum; data scientist working on the ChEMBL resource at EMBL-EBI. Background in real world problem solving from radioactive waste disposal to medicinal drug safety.

An Open Targets alumna, Arwa is a computer scientist with experience in applying AI and machine learning methods in bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and natural language processing.