Serena Scollen

Serena Scollen is Head of Human Genomics and Translational Data at ELIXIR, the European infrastructure for bioinformatics and life-science data, based in Hinxton, UK. She works with scientists across Europe to establish standards and infrastructure to facilitate the discoverability, access, sharing and analysis of genomics data, linked to other data types and at a scale that has not previously been achieved. She coordinates the GDI project, a €40M Digital Europe project, and the B1MG project, a €4M EU H2020 Coordination and Support Action, both of which are aligned with the 1+ Million Genomes Initiative (1+MG), a commitment of 24 European countries to give cross-border access to one million sequenced genomes. She is also on the Scientific Advisory Board for Sosei Heptares and Health-RI, and on the European Board for Movement Health 2030. Prior to joining ELIXIR, she was a Director within the Human Genetics and Computational Biomedicine group at Pfizer. Earlier in her career, she worked