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James Bradford

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Head of Bioinformatics at Almac Diagnostic Services
📍 Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

James Bradford is the Head of Bioinformatics at Almac Diagnostic Services, specializing in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and biomarker identification. His career has spanned both academia, with a PhD from the University of Leeds and research at Cancer Research UK, and industry, including a key informatics role at AstraZeneca.

He was involved in some of the earliest research evaluating and comparing RNA-Seq technology against established Exon Arrays.

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Experience
22 Years
Current Role
Head of Bioinformatics
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Cancer Genomics
His career, from post-doctoral research to leadership at Almac, has consistently focused on applying bioinformatics to understand the molecular drivers of cancer.
NGS Bioinformatics
Leads a team developing and executing bioinformatics pipelines and tools to support Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) assays for clinical trials and research.
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Career

Work history

2-2019
Head of Bioinformatics
Almac Diagnostic Services
11-2016 - 2-2019
Bioinformatics Team Leader
Almac Diagnostic Services
3-2014 - 11-2016
Research Fellow
University of Sheffield
2-2011 - 3-2014
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
AstraZeneca
2008 - 2011
Post-doctoral Scientist
Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Manchester
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Education
2000 - 2001
MRes
University of Leeds
2000 - 2004
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
University of Leeds
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