Speakers

Greg has over 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. He has contributed to over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has played lead roles in a number of International genome sequencing projects.

He completed his PhD with Sydney Brenner in Cambridge, and his academic career includes positions at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, QMUL, the MRC National Institute for Medical Research and the Crick Institute, leading research groups and running sequencing facilities. 

In January 2018, Greg joined Genomics England as Director of Sequencing, co-ordinating programmes across diverse omics platforms. Over the past 5 years his R&D lab has assessed and developed sequencing technologies with the aim of clinical implementation in both Cancer and Rare Disease. He also coordinates epigenetic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic programmes of research in Rare Disease.