I have 40 years’ experience in molecular biology, including 30 years in Genomics at Principal Investigator level, establishing, co-ordinating and managing multi-disciplinary teams and pipelines. I have contributed to nearly 200 peer-reviewed publications and have played lead roles in a number of International genome sequencing projects. My academic career includes positions at the Sanger Campus, QMUL, MRC NIMR and the Crick Institute, leading research groups and sequencing facilities. In January 2018 I joined Genomics England as Director of Sequencing, co-ordinating programmes across diverse omics platforms. Over the past 5 years my R&D lab has assessed and developed sequencing technologies with the aim of clinical implementation in both Cancer and Rare Disease. I also coordinate epigenetic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic programmes of research in Rare Disease.