Gary Saunders Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, GB

• Leading Pillar 5: "Accelerate the digital transformation of Translational Medicine" of EATRIS 2023-26 Strategic Plan
• Defining and uncovering new services for the Research Infrastructure, driving innovation and business opportunities
• Managing a team of 3 with budgetary responsibility for the department

• Establishing a new strategic direction for the Research Infrastructure
• Coordinating EATRIS' EC data-related project portfolio
• Managing a team of 2 and overseeing the budget for the department

• Leading implementation of the ELIXIR Scientific Programme 2019-23 for Human Genetics and Translational Data
• Coordinating 3 ELIXIR Communities and 2 Working Groups with representation from 23 European countries
• Implementing internal project portfolio of >1million Euros/year
• Lead for external ELIXIR project portfolio for use cases of cancer and rare diseases building federated data management infrastructure

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Scientific lead for the European Variation Archive
• Building and establishing the business case for service for the open-access repository of genomic mutations with ~1 billion of submitted records
• User focussed representative for services European Genome-phenome archive for secure access to sensitive data and the Database of Genomics Variant Archive for access to structural genomic variant data

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Lead for the proteogenomics strategic programme for the GENCODE project
• Working to improve the usability of our genomic annotation resources
• Promoting our resources at international meetings, and detailing our work in several high-impact publications