John Frederick William Birney CBE FRS FMedSci (born 6 December 1972) is joint director with Rolf Apweiler of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire and deputy director the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). He also serves as non-executive director of Genomics England, chair of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and honorary professor of bioinformatics at the University of Cambridge. Birney has made significant contributions to genomics, through his development of innovative bioinformatics and computational biology tools. He previously served as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
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6 December 1972 (age 52) Paddington, London
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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