Andrew Blake
Strategic Data Platform Lead
CRUK Oxford Centre
Biography
Andrew Blake is the Strategic Data Platform Development Lead at the Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre and for the S:CORT consortium. He has a degree in human genetics and a master’s in bioinformatics. Andrew has created a variety of bioinformatics databases, web portals and developed analysis pipelines as well as spearheading the system administration of the high availability, high performance computing infrastructure supporting EU wide and international programmes. He played a key role in an international bioinformatics consortium working closely with the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.