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 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 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 leads the Proteomic Mass Spectrometry facility, which conducts research and technology development for proteogenomics and network proteomics.
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 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 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 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 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 - Director of Scientific Operations
Emma oversees the development and delivery of our DNA pipelines to ensure that they continue to deliver high-quality data and are equipped to be able to adapt to the constantly changing demands of new technologies. For more information, please visit our Sequencing and Genome analysis pipelines pages.
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.
