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Dr Ben Sidders, Chief Scientific Officer at Biorelate, has been working at the forefront of pharma data science for the last two decades. Formerly Executive Director and Head of Early Data Science within Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca, responsible for advancing the company’s understanding of disease through computational oncology, Ben also previously spent eight years at Pfizer, and has extensive experience of many aspects of drug discovery for major pharma. He is especially passionate about immuno-oncology, network biology and the role of bioinformatics within drug discovery. Ben has a PhD in Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics from the University of London where his thesis focused on the development of predictive markers for the diagnosis of asymptomatic Tuberculosis. He holds patents for two clinical diagnostics and has authored over 30 scientific publications.