Lee Larcombe

Cambridge, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Training Coordinator for Research Science - ELIXIR-UK

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

I began my scientific career in the lab, with an undergraduate degree in Genetics from QMUL and later, a PhD studying Chlamydia trachomatis at Cranfield University. My bioinformatics interests developed during this PhD, eventually leading to the post of Lecturer in Genetics and Computational biology at Cranfield where I was the course director of the University's BBSRC-funded MSc in Applied Bioinformatics. I subsequently made the move to industry: first as bioinformatics lead for Lonza Biologics, and then most recently as an independent consultant. My research has focussed mainly on functional genomics, and data integration for the study of oncology and the discovery of novel biomarkers...