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Ewan Birney
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John Frederick William Birney (known as Ewan Birney) CBE FRS FMedSci[19][20] (born 6 December 1972)[21][4][6][7] is joint director of EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),[22][23][24] in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire and deputy director general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).[25] He also serves as non-executive director of Genomics England,[26] chair of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)[27][28] and honorary professor of bioinformatics at the University of Cambridge.[29] Birney has made significant contributions to genomics, through his development of innovative bioinformatics and computational biology tools.[13] He previously served as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.[30]
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Born | (1972-12-06) 6 December 1972 (age 51)[4][5][6][7] |
Other names | Ewan Birney John Birney[8] |
Education | Eton College |
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Barley Laycock ā (m. 2003) |
Children | Two[6] |
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Thesis | Sequence alignment in bioinformatics (2000) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Durbin[18] |
Website | www![]() |