Aleix Lafita

Aleix Lafita is an Associate Director at GSK with over a decade of experience in protein bioinformatics and structural modelling. He develops and applies state-of-the-art protein modelling techniques at the human proteome scale to understand disease mechanisms and support drug discovery programmes across therapeutic areas and modalities. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Cambridge and EMBL-EBI, and a Master's in Computational Biology from ETH Zurich. His research focuses on foundational AI models for protein sequence and structure prediction. He has authored 18 scientific publications and developed six open-source bioinformatics tools. He has served on two consecutive assessment teams for protein interaction prediction at CASP, the international double-blind protein structure prediction challenge; and worked closely with the RCSB PDB and Pfam teams. He has also been an active contributor to the open-source bioinformatics community, as a member of the BioJava core