Alastair Kerr
Lead Bioinformatician (Operations)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlastair Kerr is a seasoned bioinformatics leader with over two decades of experience across pharma, biotech, academia and private research, currently serving as Lead Bioinformatician (Operations) at Genomics England. He has led national and institutional bioinformatics teams—most recently heading Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at Cancer Research UK’s Cancer Biomarker Centre—bridging operational delivery with methodological rigour. His background spans hands-on computational biology roles through to core facility and operational management, reflecting deep expertise in genomics, biomarker discovery and bioinformatics infrastructure. Trained in genetics and bioinformatics (BSc Edinburgh, PhD Nottingham), he combines academic depth with pragmatic programme delivery in large, regulated projects. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex analyses into robust, reproducible workflows and to scale teams and systems to meet clinical and research timelines. Notably, his career trajectory shows a deliberate focus on embedding statistical and computational best practices into operational settings where genomics drives patient impact.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Hons), Genetics, B.Sc. (Hons), Genetics at The University of EdinburghPhD, Bioinformatics, Genetics, PhD, Bioinformatics, Genetics at University of Nottingham
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
seq7
chip-seq6
lapack6
r6
ubuntu6
pipeline5
nextflow5
bioinformatics5
immunology5
nf-core4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AlastairKerr/Tutorials
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 8 months
AlastairKerr/DereticWelburnApp
May 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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