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brian.marsden@cmd.ox.ac.uk

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Brian Marsden

BA (Cantab), MA (Cantab), D.Phil. (Oxon)

Professor of Practice in Data Management and Research Informatics

  • Director of the NDM Data Platform
  • Associate Head, Medical Sciences Division (Digital & Information)
  • Chair, University Research Computing Subcommittee
  • Member of Information and Digital Committee (IDC) and Research Portfolio Committee
  • Chair of NIHR BRC Informatics Forum

Brian is responsible for driving research informatics and research computing capabilities at the Kennedy Institute and the Centre for Medicines Discovery.

After completing a D.Phil. within the Iain Campbell lab at the University of Oxford, Brian was awarded a Wellcome Trust Prize Fellowship which he spent at the Abagyan lab at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA, devising novel methods for proteins structure superimposition and also implementing high performance compute and storage clusters. He then worked as part of the Computational Chemistry group at BioFocus PLC before settling down at the SGC in Oxford and now the Centre for Medicines Discovery where he continues to be responsible for all aspects of Informatics, IT and structural bioinformatics. He has a particular interest in the development of novel data capture and visualisation methods for structural and chemical biology data.

Since 2023, Brian has been the Director of the NDM Biomedical Data Platform where he and his team are responsible for the provision of effective data management platforms to support the broad range of science within the department.