Dr. Tim Hubbard

Biography

Tim Hubbard studied Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and completed his PhD in Protein Design at the Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London. He undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the Protein Engineering Research Institute in Osaka, Japan, followed by a return to Cambridge in 1990 as a Zeneca Fellow at the MRC Centre for Protein Engineering, focusing on protein folding and design. Tim co-founded SCOP (the Structural Classification of Proteins database) and developed algorithms for predicting protein structures and assessing accuracy in sequence alignment methods. He participated in the CASP (Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction) competition from 1994 and organized subsequent competitions until 2007. In 1997, he joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute as Head of Human Genome Analysis, overseeing the sequencing of the human genome. Tim co-founded the Ensembl project and led the GENCODE project to annotate human genes, becoming a principal investigator in the Genome Reference Consortium. In 2012, he was appointed as Professor of Bioinformatics and Head of the Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics at King's College London and is the Director of Bioinformatics at King's Health Partners. His research contributions include initiatives in genomic medicine and health data research.

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