Martin Leach, speaking at Pharma Cloud World Europe 2011

Martin Leach,
Chief Information Officer
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

Martin Leach is Chief Information Officer at the Broad Institute. In this role, he oversees and helps integrate the Institute’s multi-faceted computing and information technology-related endeavors.
Martin comes to the Broad from Merck & Co., where he led IT for Discovery and Pre-Clinical Sciences across all the North American research sites. Over his career he has provided support and strategic vision for IT, informatics, and data-mining activities at a range of life sciences organizations, from basic research laboratories to large pharmaceutical companies.
Martin received his Ph.D. in pharmacology from Boston University School of Medicine and his B.Sc. in cell and molecular sciences from Anglia Polytechnic University.

Appearing:

Day Two – Wednesday 9th November 2011

2.15pm

Lessons learned leveraging the cloud for genomic sequence and other data analysis

• How an analysis pipeline was replicated on the cloud
• Leveraging the cloud to enable information exchange between disparate software applications
• Issues preventing increased cloud utilization and some next steps at the Broad Institute

Martin Leach,

Chief Information Officer,
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

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