Martin Moorhead, Ph.D.
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Martin Moorhead, Ph.D.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Martin is a scientific entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in therapeutics, diagnostics and omics tools companies. He combines a deep background in computational biology with expertise in biology, biochemistry and genomics. Prior to joining Illumina Ventures, Martin was Chief Technology Officer at Encoded Therapeutics. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of R&D at Adaptive Technologies. Previous companies include Sequenta, Affymetrix and ParAllele. He has contributed to more than 40 peer-reviewed papers and has expertise in viral vectors, machine learning and assay development. Martin earned his Ph.D. in Particle Astrophysics at Oxford University and his M.Sc. in Computer Science at Imperial College, London. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford and later at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, followed by a Temporary University Lectureship (Assistant Professor) at Oxford.
