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Associate Professor Ellis Patrick is an applied statistician and bioinformatician at the University of Sydney, affiliated with the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, where he leads the Bioinformatics cluster at the Sydney Precision Data Science Centre. He obtained his PhD in statistical bioinformatics from the University of Sydney and conducted postdoctoral research as a computational biologist with joint appointments at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Patrick has received the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from 2020 to 2022 and has attracted approximately $12 million in research funding from various agencies. He has published over 50 manuscripts in high-impact journals with an H-index of 22, highlighting his significant contributions to the field. He specializes in developing and implementing innovative bioinformatics tools that enhance the understanding and treatment of human diseases, with a focus on infectious diseases, organ transplant, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, and cancer. Patrick is also passionate about mentoring the next generation of researchers, currently supervising postgraduate students and chairing the Education and Training Subcommittee of the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society.
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