Andrea Townsend-Nicholson

Professor Andrea Townsend-Nicholson holds a chair in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University College London (UCL). Andrea’s research aims to enhance our understanding of the molecular basis of health and disease using experimental and computational methodologies and she has a special interest in facilitating the introduction of personalized medicine into clinical practice. As the UCL training lead for CompBioMed, a European Commission Horizon 2020-funded Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine (compbiomed.eu), and as Head of Teaching for Molecular Biosciences at UCL from 2010 to 2019, she has led the development of high-performance computing (HPC)-based education targeting medical students and undergraduate students studying biosciences, with ~2000 students having received this training as part of their taught degree thus far. Andrea has been a PRACE trainer on the PATC Short Course on Computational Bio-Medicine since 2017.