2023—present
At Evinova, AstraZeneca’s global health-tech business, I lead a UX team that designs and delivers Study Design and Planning (SDP), a sponsor-side solution for optimising clinical trials.
SDP gives study teams the tools and insights to make key design choices for their clinical trials early on, before design and budget get locked-in. Users will use SDP to optimise trials for patient-centricity, faster recruitment, reduced complexity, population diversity, higher probability of success, cost effectiveness, and sustainability.
2019—2023
I led a UX team at BenevolentAI. Our team conceptualised, designed, and helped build novel software products for AI-powered drug discovery.
We focused on target identification, one of the key challenges in the early stages of drug development. We used various computational technologies, such as entity extraction and data visualisation, as well as a range of design patterns to help our users explore existing biomedical knowledge and select best hypotheses for internal discovery projects.
2014–2019
At Science Practice, I led a design team focused on helping life science companies design and build digital products. We worked with Lifebit, Genomics PLC, NatureMetrics, Discngine, Repositive, and more.
For Repositive, we helped design a platform for researchers and CROs to find and share cancer model data. For a genomics startup, we designed a visualisation tool to help their end users build trust in classification algorithms. We also proposed a new way to distill variant information for clinical genetics.
2013–2016
I led the design and development of a novel method for visualising and exploring biological sequence data. Sequence Bundles were built, launched, and published in collaboration with EMBL-EBI.
2014–2019
At Ctrl Group, I led and contributed to a range of design projects, including prototyping a platform for sharing clinical trial data, instructional design and training experiences for participants in clinical studies, conversational interfaces for patient management of depression, and a patient-friendly health data report.
2013–2014
In Bento's early days, I helped to set out the product vision, understand user needs, and define the shape of the world's first personal DNA laboratory.
2011–2013
I worked with Immunocore just before they became a biotech super-star. Amongst other things, I designed Immunocore's visual identity which is still being used today!
2011-2013
I authored and led a series of hands-on workshops for data science academics and professionals introducing them to the principles of visual design.
2010–2012
This is my personal investigation into the limits of communication. I looked at historical and fictional instances of communicating with extraterrestrial intelligence to draw scientific and existential conclusions.
2008–2010
I created a set of visualisations explaining the cellular processes of mitosis and meiosis. Published under an open license, the diagrams became popular on Wikipedia pages.
