Professor Tim Hubbard became Director of ELIXIR in 2024, a distributed European research infrastructure for life-science data. Alongside this role, Tim is also Professor of Bioinformatics at Kings College London and holds memberships with the Science Advisory Committee for Genomics England and Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Genomics, established by the World Health Organisation. Tim’s previous work as Head of Genome Analysis at Genomics England is highly regarded, having been set up by the Department of Health to execute the 100,000 genomes project, which aims to mainstream the use of whole genome sequence analysis for treatment in the UK National Health Service (NHS).
Until 2013 Tim was Head of Informatics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute where he was one of the organisers of the sequencing of the human genome. In 1999 he co-founded the Ensembl project to analysis, organise and provide access to the human genome and from 2007 led the GENCODE project to annotate the structure of all human genes.
In late 2024 Tim was selected to be among the first Honorary Fellows of HDR UK, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the Institute.
