Kevin Blighe
Freelance Consultant
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKevin Blighe is a freelance consultant and founder with nine years of hands-on experience delivering bioinformatics and clinical genomics solutions across academia, industry and public health organisations worldwide. He has led hundreds of projects for over 50 institutions—including top-tier universities, hospitals and biopharma—bringing practical expertise in NGS, transcriptomics, single-cell analysis, ML for survival modelling and clinically validated pipelines. Kevin combines scientific rigour (PhD in Cancer Studies, research fellowships at Harvard and Brigham & Women’s) with product-facing delivery, having implemented ISO15189-compatible clinical NGS workflows and released tools such as an R/Bioconductor package for single-cell visualisation. He advises European Commission programmes and has consulted for major organisations including Roche, Bristol Myers Squibb and the University of Cambridge, demonstrating an ability to translate complex omics into regulatory- and industry-ready outputs. Based in London, he runs Clinical Bioinformatics Research and leads teams at Rancho BioSciences, blending strategic leadership with deep technical craft. An unexpected strength is his track record moving between lab, hospital IT and regulator-facing projects, enabling rare end-to-end delivery from wet lab signals to clinical decision-support.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
TU Dublin Computer ScienceResearch Fellow in Medicine, Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical SchoolHoly Child Catholic National School (Scoil An Linbh Íosa)B.Sc. (Honours) Industrial Biology, B.Sc. (Honours) Industrial Biology at Institute of Technology, CarlowDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Cancer Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cancer Studies at University of LeicesterChristian Brothers School (Méanscoil Iognáid Rís)
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Github Skills (38)
labeling10
visualization10
spatial-transcriptomics10
gene-expression10
dimensionality-reduction9
single-cell-genomics9
bioconductor9
bioinformatics9
cran9
clustering9
genomics9
rna-seq9
gdc8
parallel-processing8
sequencing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kevinblighe/EnhancedVolcano
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Publication-ready volcano plots with enhanced colouring and labeling
Contributions:27 commits, 5 PRs, 123 pushes in 1 year 6 months
labelingvolcanocolouringplotsvisualization
kevinblighe/PCAtools
Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
PCAtools: everything Principal Components Analysis
Contributions:30 commits, 13 PRs, 96 pushes in 2 years 3 months
principaleverythinganalysis-componentspcatools
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