Dr David Fenstermacher
Dr. David Fenstermacher is currently the Vice President R&D-Bioinformatics at Medimmune, LLC. With more than 30 years of research experience as a molecular biologist and bioinformaticist, he has held several academic appointments at multiple universities and led several national and international informatics projects.
During his twenty years in bioinformatics, David designed and directed the implementation of numerous bioinformatics and biomedical informatics distributed computing systems to support basic, translational and clinical research, including multiple institution research projects. He has also designed data warehouses that integrate patient-level clinical data, genomics (genome-wide association studies, massively parallel sequencing, array-based technologies) and other ‘omics data to support studies focused on cancer and other human diseases. Most recent research is focused on developing a federated semantic approach for data integration to support target identification/validation and precision medicine.
David received his PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr Anthony Philippakis M.D., Ph.D.
Anthony Philippakis is the Chief Data Officer of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he is also an institute scientist.
Philippakis is committed to bridging the gap between data sciences and medicine. He is a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where his primary focus is caring for patients with rare genetic cardiovascular diseases. At the Broad Institute he directs the Data Sciences Platform, an organization of over 100 software engineers and computational biologists that develops software for analyzing genomic and clinical data. In addition to his roles at the Broad Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Philippakis is a Venture Partner at GV, focusing on machine learning, distributed computing, and genomics.
Philippakis received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and completed a Ph.D. in biophysics at Harvard. As an undergraduate, he studied mathematics at Yale University, and later completed the Part III (equivalent to M.Phil) in mathematics at Cambridge University.
Andy Nelson
Andy works in Illumina’s Product Development organization on cloud operations & architecture for the BaseSpace suite of Informatics SaaS platforms.
These providing data management and analysis capabilities for full genome DNA sequencing, and during 2018 consumed over 4 Million compute hours, processing over 10PB of genomic data… equivalent to the entire Netflix video library every quarter.
Prior to working at Illumina, Andy was a cross-industry technical consultant, and brings over 2 decade’s experience in designing and managing high volume data storage and distributed compute systems across a diverse range of industries including telecommunications, insurance, banking, pharmaceutical and biotechnology.
Thomas Alisi
Software engineer with entrepreneurial attitude, problem solving approach and a particular propensity for large scale cloud computing projects.
I can lead and implement the deployment of software architectures for data driven digital products and award winning digital campaigns for international brands and agencies.
With my scientific background, I have published for international conferences and journals and I have been awarded numerous research grants.
I am also the proud founder and manager of an invitation only community of ~200 London-based technical leads and developers.
Mark Davies
Mark is an Enterprise Technology Architect in the “Chief Technology Office” of Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd. Having left school at 16 in the late 80’s, started work in a local Insurance Company before taking on his first serious IT role, within a Software House developing motor insurance quotation systems. Since then he’s worked in the Insurance, Utilities, Travel & Retail industries, moving from Operations Support into Architecture & Strategy. He has worked on projects all over the world, but always returning to his roots in good old Sussex by the sea. With an inquisitive mind and a love for technology, both old and new, he also recognizes that technology is the simplest piece of the puzzle. Father of two, husband, qualified FA coach, part of the Les Mills Bodycombat Tribe; he brings commitment and dedication to everything he does.
Wolfgang Schamel
