Chuang Kee Ong M.Eng

ChuangKee (CK) is a proven research and informatics leader in the life science and pharmaceutical industry with solid technical leadership and excellent track records in informatics projects delivery. In his current role as Associate Director, Lead Information Architecture AstraZeneca UK Ltd, he provides bioinformatics domain leadership to drive the company’s data strategy in target identification and pre-clinical space to achieve FAIRification of research data. He is also responsible for informatics solutions delivery, focusing on the 2 million genomes initiative. Previously he worked on high-impact projects such as Ensembl and OpenTargets. Most recently, Data Integration Manager at OpenTargets, a pre-competitive collaboration between EBI, GSK, Sanger Institute, Takeda, et al. There, he is responsible for data provision across different EBI teams, that supply various data types from genomic, clinical trial, literature, multi-omics, etc. He also led the data integration efforts through common disease ontology. Other roles he has held previously are Principal Scientist, VP at Sime Darby Technology Center, Senior Associate Scientist at Eli Lilly, and Bioinformatics Scientist at Medical Research Council in Edinburgh, Scotland.