Professor Georgios V. Gkoutos PhD, DIC, FRSB, FRSM

• D.I.C., Imperial College, 2002
• PhD in Molecular and Biological Informatics, Imperial College, 2002
• MSc in Computational Biology, University of Essex, 1999
• BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry, University of Essex, 1998

A biochemist by training, George was initially involved in the field of Computational Biology following a MSc degree by research on correlated mutations analysis on G-Protein coupled receptors which involved modelling class A G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) and drug design. He then proceeded to obtain a PhD in the areas of Chemoinformatics/Bioinformatics at Imperial College of London.

After the completion of his PhD, he was awarded a MRC Career Development Fellowship at MRC Harwell, Oxford. In 2005, he joined the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University and was part of various international consortia aimed at facilitating the translation of basic research findings to applications that aimed at the identification of the genetic underpinnings of disease mechanisms. In 2012, he became the head of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Group at Aberystwyth University, and in September 2015, George joined the University of Birmingham as the Chair of Clinical Bioinformatics. Professor Gkoutos splits his time between the Centre for Health Data Science, the College of Medical and Dental Sciences, the Institute of Translational Medicine, and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

• Programme Director - MSc Health Data Science
• Programme Director Health Data Science (Dubai)
• Clinical Science BMedSc
• Biomedical Science MSci

Professor Gkoutos's research background lies within the areas of clinical and biomedical informatics, health data science and translational research aiming at the discovery of molecular origins of human disease and the development of novel disease diagnostic and intervention strategies. His expertise lies in the fields of translational phenomics, integrative systems biology, biomedical knowledge formalization, standardisation and representation, multimodal large data harmonization, interoperability and integration, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and multiomics, multimodal integrative analytics.

He has over 200 peer reviewed publications [total grant funding (last 5 years) < £60M, personal <5.2 million] and is closely involved with international efforts to integrate large phenotype datasets from the main high throughput phenotyping centres in Europe, Australasia and North America, and policy development in data and resource standards and sharing.

Fellowships

• Fellow, Robinson College, University of Cambridge
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
• Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute

Editorial Boards

• Member of the Computers in Biology and Medicine
• Member of the Editorial Board of Genes
• Member of the Editorial Board of Plos ONE
• Member of the Editorial Board of ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies
• Member of the Editorial Board Precision Clinical Medicine Journal

External Engagement

• 2023 - External Examiner postgraduate and undergraduate degrees - University of Manchester
• 2020 - Expert Member of COST Harmonizing Information / Artificial Intelligence
• 2020 - Expert Member of COST Harmonizing cancer research and -omics practice
• 2016 - Member of the NHS GMCs & GEL Genomic data panel

National Boards and Committees

2022 - co-Chair of the BBSRC CCN panel
2017 - Member of NIHR Advanced Fellowship Panel
2016 - 2017 Member of the Medical Research Council Skills Development Panel
Senior Promotions Panels - most recent University College London (2021)

Honorary Posts 

• Faculty Affiliate Professor Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA 
• Honorary Professor, UCCS, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Professor of Bioinformatics, University Hospitals Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust 
• Honorary Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Aberystwyth