
Harpreet Saini
Harpreet Saini is a Senior Director, Bioinformatics at Astex Pharmaceuticals, a fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) company in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Previously she received her PhD in Bioinformatics in 2004 at the Institute of Microbial Technology, INDIA, and completed her postdoc in 2009 at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, working on the genomic annotation of microRNAs.
Before joining Astex Pharmaceuticals in 2014, she was a scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute, working on noncoding RNAs in germ cell tumors. At Astex, her team utilizes high-throughput multi-omics technologies & computational approaches to support new targets identification, biomarker discovery and patient stratification for oncology and neuroscience programs.
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28-Jan-2026Single-Cell Stage