Bioinformatician, is group leader of HT's Computational Biology Research Center and team leader of the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hixton, UK. He works mainly on bioinformatics methods for pharmaco-genomics, therapeutic target discovery, drug repositioning, and big-data analysis in biomedical fields. His work focuses on cancer, rare diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, for example.