Professor Gilean McVean FRS FMedSci

Director of the Oxford Big Data Institute, Gil McVean is a statistical geneticist who has made important contributions to statistical methodology and basic biology, played a leading role in international efforts to characterise human genetic variation and led the development of whole genome sequencing methods in applied and medical research. As an international leader in the statistical and computational analysis of genetic variation, Professor McVean plays a key role in the development of medical applications of genome sequencing, from the Genomics England project to the tracking of drug resistance in malaria.