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Lindsay Edwards

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Scientific Advisor at The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Centre at Broad Institute
📍 London Area, United Kingdom

Lindsay Edwards is the Chief Technology Officer at Relation Therapeutics, leading efforts in AI and machine learning for drug discovery. An experienced leader from roles at AstraZeneca and GSK, he specializes in building high-performing ML teams to drive R&D. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology from the University of Oxford.

Before his distinguished science career, Lindsay was a professional musician, programmer, cycling coach, and writer. This diverse background highlights a creative and multi-faceted approach to his work, blending analytical rigor with innovative thinking to solve complex problems in biology and computation.

Unique fact: He was a successful record producer with five UK Top Ten singles, a multi-platinum album, and an Ivor Novello award to his name.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Scientific Advisor
Job Level
Leadership
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
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AI in Drug Discovery
His entire recent career at Relation, AstraZeneca, and GSK has focused on applying machine learning and AI to transform pharmaceutical R&D and discover new medicines.
Genomics & Human Data
At Relation, he focuses on using LLMs to contextualize human genomics data for drug target identification, a core part of their strategy.
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Career

Work history

5-2024
Scientific Advisor
The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Centre at Broad Institute
12-2021
Chief Technology Officer and President of Platform
Relation Therapeutics
5-2020 - 12-2021
Vice President & Head of AI, Respiratory and Immunology
AstraZeneca
12-2018 - 5-2020
Vice President, AI/ML Engineering
GSK
4-2018 - 10-2018
Global Head of Digital, Data & Analytics (DDA), GSK Respiratory
GSK
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Education
2006 - 2009
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
University of Oxford
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