Alona Sosinsky
Scientific Director For Cancer at Genomics England
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlona Sosinsky is a scientific leader with over 20 years’ experience applying bioinformatics to cancer genomics and nine years in senior leadership roles driving clinical translation at Genomics England. As Scientific Director for Cancer she shapes multi-year strategy, champions adoption of long-read and methylation sequencing, and embeds user-centred design and advanced analytics into NHS-facing services to improve patient outcomes. She combines deep technical expertise in NGS pipelines, structural variation and methylation analysis with hands-on experience using NHS Digital and Public Health England datasets to validate clinically actionable outputs. Known for building high-performing teams and cross-sector partnerships, she also oversees QA, interlaboratory agreements and the pragmatic delivery of complex programmes. Her background — from academic tool-building and teaching to leading national implementation of oncology bioinformatics — gives her rare fluency across research, clinical practice and operational delivery. Colleagues cite her intellectual courage and ability to translate cutting-edge methods into robust, governance-ready clinical pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Biophysics, Master of Science (MSc), Biophysics at St. Petersburg Technical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics at Weizmann Institute of Science
English, Russian, HebrewProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
asosinsky/GelReportModels
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 months
genomicsengland/GenomOncology
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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