Philip Awadalla is the Professor of Molecular Genetics at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, as well as the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford. Philip also serves as the National Scientific Director of CanPath.
Previously, he was a Professor at the University of Toronto, and the University of Montreal Ste Justine Children’s Hospital where he was Director of the CARTaGENE cohort in Quebec.
Philip and his team have expertise in genomics, computational biology, and epidemiology. The research focus of his team is on healthy aging and resilience, early cancer, and the evolution of somatic mutations. Philip has trained over 30 graduate students and postdocs in health and computational approaches to understanding disease evolution using single-cell, organoid, imaging and population cohort data. Philip is an Official Fellow in Cellular Life at Reuben.
