Chris Wallace
Director at University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorChris Wallace is a statistician and research leader specializing in the genetics and genomics of immune-mediated disease. Based in Cambridge, he blends academic leadership as Director of Research at the University of Cambridge with prominent roles as Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease and Programme Leader at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, alongside his Director position at GSK since 2022. He leads the data analysis workstream for the MRC CLUSTER consortium, advancing precision medicine for childhood arthritis. His work centers on developing and applying statistical methods and R-based tools to genetic data, as reflected in his GitHub-hosted packages for statistical genetics. This rare blend of academic leadership and industry insight enables him to drive translational research from discovery to clinical impact. He excels at turning complex immune-genetic questions into actionable insights that advance therapeutics and patient care.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (46)
r-package10
genetic10
fine-mapping10
gwas10
causal9
multinomial9
sum8
projection7
stochastic7
rapido7
python7
pca-analysis6
bayesian6
statistics6
genome6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chr1swallace/pky
Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 10 months
ollyburren/imd-basis
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Code related to immune-mediated disease (IMD) PCA basis creation and projection.
Contributions:17 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
projectionmediatedimdbasisdisease
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