Asim Siddiqui, PhD profile page

Asim Siddiqui is senior vice president of research and tech development and has a long history of leading research programs across academia and industry. In industry, the domains he has worked in include drug discovery (chief technology officer at NuMedii), prenatal diagnostics (vice president of product development at Natera) and genomics tools (director of bioinformatics at Life Technologies). In academia, he was bioinformatics group leader at the BC Genome Sciences Centre and involved in a number of large-scale genomics projects including the cow genome and poplar genomes. Asim has been an author of over 40 peer-reviewed publications and holds a doctorate in Bioinformatics from Oxford University, and a degree in Physics from Cambridge University.