Our research data community

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We’re building a cancer data science community to support our researchers in tackling common challenges, sharing best practices and driving data culture change.

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Communities of special interest

Our communities of special interest help us shape researcher-led data activities and support a connected and collaborative data community. 

The unit involves six groups of data experts, each led by a key member of the data community and focussing on one of the following research data challenge areas:  

Health systems data 

Spatial biology data 

Data and samples reuse 

Public involvement and diversity 

Data and compute infrastructure 

Training and careers 

Their support helps us deliver our Research Data Strategy by guiding our delivery of services and solutions that enable researchers to take data-intensive approaches in their work. 

Community group leads

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Data and compute infrastructure  

Andrew Blake 

Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre 

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Public involvement and diversity  

Harriet Unsworth  

Cancer Research UK National Biomarker Centre 

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Training and careers 

Colin McLean  

Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre 

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Data and samples reuse 

Frances Pearl 

University of Sussex 

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Data and samples reuse 

Mieke Van Hemelrijck 

Kings College London 

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Spatial biology data  

Nigel Jamieson  

Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute

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Health systems data 

Iliada Eleftheriou 

Cancer Research UK Manchester Centre 

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Health systems data  

Gareth Price 

Cancer Research UK Manchester Centre 

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Health systems data  

Yoryos Lyratzopoulos 

University College London