Daniel Wells
Senior Lead Scientist, Statistical Genetics
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Wells is a statistical genetics leader with 11 years of experience translating large-scale omics data into actionable insights across drug discovery, biomarker development, and clinical risk stratification. He combines a DPhil in functional genomics with hands-on molecular biology experience — including early work on a MERS vaccine that reached phase I trials — to bridge wet-lab intuition and rigorous quantitative modelling. At Genomics he leads teams building and deploying polygenic risk scores and hybrid predictive models, inventing methods (several patents pending/granted) that improve multi-ancestry and rare-variant prediction without reliance on large validation cohorts. He is fluent in Python, C++ and reproducible data pipelines, and routinely communicates technical value to partners and clients while mentoring colleagues in statistics and software engineering. Notably, his doctoral work discovered the meiotic role of ZCWPW1 via single-cell transcriptomics and ChIP-seq, highlighting a rare blend of deep biological discovery and scalable statistical method development. Based in London, he focuses on practical, reproducible solutions that move genetic predictors from research into clinical and commercial use.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Genomic Medicine and Statistics (functional genomics), Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Genomic Medicine and Statistics (functional genomics) at University of OxfordA Levels, A Levels at Egglescliffe School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (85)
python10
seq10
transcriptomics10
gene-expression10
genomics10
clustering10
dimensionality-reduction10
single-cell-analysis10
rna-seq10
data-visualization10
tsne10
bioinformatics10
r9
cli9
command-line-tool9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
marchinilab/dropsim
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 8 pushes, 2 comments in 11 months
MyersGroup/testisAtlas
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 199 commits, 49 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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