Jonathan Dry

Principal Scientist
Oncology Bioinformatics
AstraZeneca
United Kingdom

Biography

  Jonathan completed a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science at the University of Manchester where his research focused on the genetics of diabetes and exposed him to the richness of information in DNA that can be uncovered with computational tools.  To pursue this interest, he was awarded a scholarship at the University of Exeter to study for an MSc in Bioinformatics and he graduated with distinction. Jonathan specialised in gene expression microarray data analysis and has supported and influenced a number of discovery programmes, including drugs targeting MEK, PARP, mTOR, PI3K and ERBB.  

Research Intrest

  harnessing genomic data from cancer cell lines, uncovering numerous disease associations, and discovering mechanisms of drug target dependency leading to biomarkers of drug response

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