Susheel Varma, Ph.D MBA FBCS
Susheel is a technologist (a.k.a possibilist) with 15+ years of experience in leadership and delivering strategic and technology solutions for complex trans-national clinical and life-science research.
In his current role as Director of Engineering at HDR UK, he provides leadership and coordinates the confluent needs of scientific, data and technology to deliver and operate a cohesive national platform for health data research in the UK. He is a thought leader in the development of Trusted Research Environments (TREs) and is able to pragmatically convene, build, manage and empower a federated coalition of TRE providers nationally and internationally.
In his previous roles at EMBL-EBI and ELIXIR he managed and led an international portfolio of data science projects in multiple jurisdictions and research infrastructures - EMBL, ELIXIR, EOSC and GA4GH.
He has a broad operating range with high-level tought leadership and in-depth expertise in managing, developing, integrating, testing and maintaining innovative technical solutions using distributed data, network and software technologies across scientific and clinical domains.
Recent Works (See CV for more details)
- 2021
- S Varma et al. Building Trusted Research Environments - Principles and Best Practices; Towards TRE ecosystems
- H L Rhem, […], S Varma, E Birney, GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare, Cell Genomics
- J Lawson, […], S Varma, M Courtot, The Data Use Ontology to streamline responsible access to human biomedical datasets, Cell Genomics
- HDR UK, COVID-19 HDR UK Research and Analysis reports to SAGE 2020-2021
- A Wood, […], CVD-COVID-UK Consortium, Linked electronic health records for research on a nationwide cohort of more than 54 million people in England: data resource, BMJ 2021
- G Saunders, […], S Varma, S Scollen, N Blomberg, Leveraging European infrastructures to access one million human genomes by 2022, Nature Reviews Genetics