Andrew Blake
Andrew Blake leads the Oxford Cancer Centre’s Data Integration Team and oversees the development and delivery of it’s multi-modal informatics portfolio. His work focuses on enabling the integration, analysis and sharing of cancer data across genomics, imaging, and clinical domains, ensuring Oxford Cancer researchers can translate discoveries into patient benefit.
He has extensive experience in delivering research informatics solutions across RNA-Seq, whole genome and exome sequencing, TAPS, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, alongside advanced imaging and clinical datasets. Andrew has led the design and implementation of secure, scalable infrastructures—both on-premise and cloud-based—that comply with evolving regulatory and cybersecurity standards, including the establishment of Oxford Cancer’s Translation Data Platform.
Before taking up this role, Andrew held senior positions in research informatics playing key roles in international bioinformatics consortia working closely with the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.