Francesco Iorio PhD

Francesco Iorio is a computer scientist, currently Group Leader at HT’s Computational Biology Research Centre and team leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hixton (UK). He works on analytical methods for pharmacogenomics, therapeutic target discovery, drug repositioning and biomedical big-data mining, with a specific focus on cancer, rare diseases and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Francesco is building up his group and research activity, dividing his time between Milan and Cambridge.