Prof Michael Barnes

Michael leads The Centre for Translational Bioinformatics, at Queen Mary University of London. His team work across diverse research areas, including genomics, drug discovery, stratified medicine, machine learning and health informatics with a unified objective to drive forward translation into the clinic. Michael is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and an HDR-UK Investigator. He is also a co-investigator and leads data integration on several MRC stratified medicine projects, including MRC PSORT (Psoriasis), MRC RA-Map (RA), MRC MATURA (RA) and CLUSTER (Juvenile Arthritis). He serves on the MRC Methodology Research Panel and also advises on a number of project boards, including the MRC-eMedLab HPC Cloud facility, the IMI etriks project and the F1000 faculty.