Tony Cox
Chief Executive Officer at UK Biocentre
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Cox is a seasoned technology and operations leader with 27 years’ experience delivering high-throughput informatics, software development and production pipelines across genomics and life-sciences environments. As CEO of UK Biocentre he combines strategic leadership with hands-on expertise in pipeline development, IT infrastructure and process design, drawing on two decades of prior leadership at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. He is known for translating complex biological data requirements into reliable, auditable, large-scale systems that run in demanding, regulated settings. Analytical and pragmatic, Tony focuses on operational resilience and quality while fostering multidisciplinary teams that bridge research and production. His background—anchored by a PhD from the University of Reading and long experience in DNA pipeline informatics—gives him rare depth in both scientific and engineering domains.
26 years of coding experience
Ph.D, Ph.D at University of ReadingRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Github Skills (3)
perl10
api9
sql8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
Ensembl/ensembl
Jun 1999 - Jan 2001
The Ensembl Core Perl API and SQL schema
Contributions:80 commits in 1 year 7 months
apisql-schemaensemblsqlperl
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