Laura Harris
GWAS Catalog Project Co-ordinator
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLaura Harris is a GWAS Catalog Project Co-ordinator at EMBL-EBI with eight years of experience building and leading curation and delivery of the world’s go-to repository for genome-wide association studies. With a DPhil in Molecular Neurobiology from Oxford and a background spanning postdoctoral research to project management, she bridges deep genomic science and practical data stewardship. She has progressed from hands-on data curation to project leadership, driving FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles across resources used by over 100K researchers. Based in Greater Cambridge, she coordinates cross-platform collaborations with the PGS Catalog and Open Targets Genetics to maximise the utility of genetic association data. An experienced grant and funding coordinator earlier in her career, she brings both scientific rigor and stakeholder-focused programme delivery to large bioinformatics infrastructures.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil, Molecular neurobiology, DPhil, Molecular neurobiology at University of OxfordBSc, Biological Sciences (Molecular Biology), BSc, Biological Sciences (Molecular Biology) at University of Leicester
Github Skills (12)
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ontology6
infrastructure6
statistics5
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
EBISPOT/gwas-summary-statistics-standard
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Documentation on new GWAS Summary Statistics Standard
Contributions:8 reviews, 10 comments, 2 issues in 1 year 5 months
statisticsgwas-summary-statisticssummary-statisticsgwas
EBISPOT/gwas-user-requests
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:50 comments, 19 issues in 4 years 5 months
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