Senior scientific staff

This page provides information about our senior scientific staff who work with our Faculty research leaders to carry out research, develop and maintain our research infrastructure and provide technical support for the research activities of the Sanger Institute.

James Bussell - Research Support Facility.

James Bussell - Research Support Facility

James Bussell leads the Institute's Research Support Facility, which maintains and cares for the animals used in the Sanger Institute's research programmes.

Phil Butcher - Information and Communications Technology.

Phil Butcher - Information and Communications Technology

Phil Butcher is the Director of ICT and leads the IT facility, which provides a high-performance IT infrastructure and data management to support the large-scale science performed at the Sanger Institute.

Jyoti Choudhary - Proteomic Mass Spectrometry.

Jyoti Choudhary - Proteomic Mass Spectrometry

Jyoti Choudhary leads the Proteomic Mass Spectrometry facility, which conducts research and technology development for proteogenomics and network proteomics.

Carol Churcher - Sequencing Operations.

Carol Churcher - Transformation

Carol Churcher is the head of the Transformation team, managing the transformation programme following the restructuring of the DNA pipelines teams.
Carol's email and profile.

Tony Cox - Sequencing Informatics.

Tony Cox - Sequencing Informatics

Tony Cox is the head of Sequencing Informatics, which develops and applies informatics technologies to support the tracking of samples, projects and sequences through the Institute's sequencing pipeline.

Jen Harrow - Vertebrate Annotation.

Jen Harrow - Vertebrate Annotation

Jen Harrow is joint head of Vertebrate Annotation, which improves methods and examines datasets to obtain highly accurate gene annotation of human, mouse and zebrafish reference genomes.
Jen's email and profile.

Cordelia Langford - Genome Analysis Pipelines.

Cordelia Langford - Genome Analysis Pipelines

Cordelia Langford leads the Genome Analysis Pipelines, which provide high-throughput delivery in sample logistics, genome-wide data generation and quality control.

Ralph McGinnis - Statistical Genetics of Disease association, Drug response, and Ethnic Variation.

Ralph McGinnis - Statistical Genetics of Disease association, Drug response, and Ethnic Variation

Ralph McGinnis carries out collaborative and independent statistical genetics research at the Institute in the genetics of disease association, drug response and ethnic variation.
Ralph's email and profile.

Emma Millican - DNA Pipelines.

Emma Millican - DNA Pipelines

Emma Millican is a member of the Board of Management and has accountability for the management of the DNA pipelines, ensuring that they continue to deliver high-quality data and are equipped to adapt to the constantly changing demands of new technologies.

Ramiro Ramirez-Solis - Mouse Genetics Programme.

Ramiro Ramirez-Solis - Mouse Genetics Project

Ramiro Ramirez-Solis manages the Mouse Genetics Project, which generates large numbers of mutant mouse lines and carries out primary phenotypic screens.

Steve Searle - Ensembl Group.

Steve Searle - Ensembl Group

Steve Searle is joint head of Vertebrate Annotation and joint Head of Ensembl, a collaboration with the EBI, which generates and provides access to automatic annotation for genomes of vertebrate species.
Steve's email and profile.

Harold Swerdlow - Research and Development.

Harold Swerdlow - Research and Development

Harold Swerdlow is responsible for assessment, acquisition and development of third-generation sequencing capabilities and manages the R&D department.
Harold's email and profile.

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