Nick Gleadall

Nick is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge, from which he was awarded his PhD in 2020. He holds honorary appointments with Cambridge University Hospitals, University College London Hospitals and NHS Blood and Transplant. He is the Chief Analyst of the Blood transfusion Genomics Consortium and co-lead of work packages 3, 4 and 8.

Nick’s current research is focused on genomics and AI in transfusion medicine, in particular the application of high-throughput genotyping or sequencing technologies and the exploitation of large datasets to improve the matching for blood groups between patients and donors. He is a key member of a team applying machine learning to complete blood count results with the aim to discover signatures of pathogen infection for use in population surveillance. Earlier in his career he pioneered new sequencing based tests for infectious disease detection and he developed the bioinformatical infrastructure for the first diagnostic whole exome sequencing platform for rare diseases in the NHS.