Liz Merrifield

Liz Merrifield is Information Governance Lead for the BioResource Data Accelerator Project, based within the Wales Gene Park, located within the Genomics Facility in Cardiff Edge Business Park. The BioResource Data Accelerator Project brings together academic colleagues within Cardiff University, including Genomics Partnership Wales, Cardiff ECMC, Wales Cancer Biobank and the Centre for Trials Research, with healthcare providers including Velindre NHS Trust and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, to deliver a number of novel project exemplars linking genomic data for research.

With a background of over 15 years as a Quality Assurance Manager in clinical trials and internal audit, she brings expertise in legal and regulatory compliance in the areas of research ethics and data stewardship across the entire research lifecycle, from the inception of a research idea, through data collection and analysis, to data archival and onward use. She has extensive experience in quality assurance within clinical trials, having led on internal audit, risk management and data quality.

She provides specialist support to overcome current barriers to data sharing, and has a particular interest in nurturing robust and transparent environments which enable compliant research practices.

She is also involved with a number of national data groups, including ECMC, Elixir-UK's Human Data, and DARE-UK, and locally works with colleagues in the Digital Transformation Innovation Institute to deliver on the DTII's healthcare strategy.