Lindsay Edwards

Lindsay Edwards is Relation's CTO and President of Platform. Originally a specialist in systems biology, he joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2014 from the Physiology faculty at King's College London. At GSK, he founded the company's first Data Science group, ultimately becoming VP of AI/ML for UK & Europe and VP of AI/ML Engineering. He subsequently built and led an AI/ML team at AstraZeneca, contributing to the COVID-19 vaccine programme. He holds a DPhil in Physiology from Oxford, is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Centre at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles spanning medicine and machine learning, including in JAMA, PNAS, and NeurIPS. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).