Mark Cowley
Conjoint Professor at Children's Cancer Institute
New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMark Cowley is a Conjoint Professor and Deputy Director at Children’s Cancer Institute with 14+ years leading computational biology teams to translate whole-genome sequencing into real-time precision medicine for children with cancer. He leads national-scale programs such as ZERO Childhood Cancer and the Luminesce Alliance, overseeing a ~40-person group that has delivered clinically accredited pipelines and helped secure Medicare funding for 18 genomic tests. His work spans AI-driven bioinformatics, multi-omics integration, and secure health data platforms, with a track record of building production-grade tools (e.g., Seave, ClinSV, mity) used across rare disease and cancer diagnostics. A practical translational scientist, he has repeatedly turned research software into accredited clinical systems that shorten diagnostic timelines and enable treatment matching. As President of AGTA he actively shapes genomics policy and community collaboration across Australia and New Zealand. Outside leadership, he remains hands-on in extracting medically actionable insights from WGS data, mentoring the next generation of genomic informaticians.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyUNSW Sydney
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (92)
structural-variation10
linux9
bcftools9
rna-seq9
ruby9
genomics9
bioinformatics9
genome9
sequencing9
bam8
wake-on-lan8
cancer-genomics8
homebrew8
samtools8
package-manager8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
drmjc/genomics
Nov 2011 - Sep 2013
Contributions:23 commits in 1 year 10 months
drmjc/mjcgraphics
Nov 2011 - Jun 2016
Contributions:45 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 4 years 7 months
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