Genomics: Gil McVean

Gil McVean has been appointed chief information officer of UK data science company Genomics, a post he will take up before the end of 2019. He cofounded the company and is already one of its directors. McVean will be joining Genomics from the University of Oxford, where he is the founding director of the Big Data Institute and a professor of statistical genetics at the Nuffield Department of Medicine. Prior to that, he was head of bioinformatics and statistical genetics at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford and a professor of statistical genetics at the university's Department of Statistics.