Toby Johnson
Executive Director, Genomic Technologies at GSK
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Johnson is an executive leader in genomic technologies with 11+ years at GSK, now directing a 40-person team that translates human genetic and -omics data into drug discovery and clinical decisions. Trained in mathematics and mathematical population genetics (PhD, Edinburgh), he blends deep statistical genetics and computational expertise with hands-on programming in R, Python, Spark and C++. His research career includes high-impact consortium work on blood pressure genetics and early demonstrations of fine-scale European population structure, with publications recognised by the American Heart Association. Toby specializes in causal inference, Mendelian randomization, pharmacogenomics and inference from summary statistics, uniquely pairing methodological innovation with enterprise-scale analytics. Colleagues describe him as a scientist-leader who moves seamlessly between developing novel statistical methods and delivering actionable genomic insight for translational programs.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Mathematical population genetics, PhD Mathematical population genetics at The University of Edinburgh
English, French
Github Skills (18)
genetics10
r-package10
toolbox9
python8
pandas8
manipulation7
frame7
data-analysis7
data-structures7
data-science6
dataframes5
data-manipulation4
genetic1
genome1
datasets1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
tobyjohnson/gtx
Jan 2015 - Jul 2019
Genetics ToolboX R package
Contributions:487 commits, 6 PRs, 328 pushes in 4 years 6 months
r-packagetoolboxrstatsgenetics
StatGenPRD/GWASImputationPipeline
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 1 day
genomeinfergenetic-datageneticsubjects
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