Mark mccarthy biography

Open Targets brings together a team with expertise from academia and pharma, pulling together skills from a wide range of disciplines including bioinformatics, computer science, web development, human genetics, functional genomics and operations.

Our Executive Leadership Team and our Scientific Leadership Team determine the strategic and scientific vision for the consortium and our Strategy and Operations Team provide the necessary support to facilitate the vision and its implementation across our partners.

Our Platform Team and our Genetics Team are responsible for maintaining our informatics resources and tools while our Project Teams conduct experimental and informatics research and our Validation Lab Team takes targets identified from these projects and guides them through further screens to assess suitability for drug discovery programmes.

And our Scientific Advisory Board are a group of well-known individuals from academia and industry that make recommendations to fur