User:Leeh49

I am Lee Harland, a scientist and entrepreneur from the United Kingdom. I work at SciBite Limited, a company involved in semantic analysis and Text mining for the pharmaceutical, life-science and biomedical area. My background is a PhD in Gene Therapy from Kings College London, and leadership roles in bioinformatics at pharmaceutical companies. I am a strong proponent of open data and pre-competitive collaboration, and have led initiatives through the Pistoia Alliance and the Innovative Medicines Initiative. I strongly believe that the pharma industry can achieve better productivity and benefit patients better by maximising open data and collaboration and have published a number of key papers on this subject. I believe the semantic web, ontologies and related technologies can empower this change and have been involved in a number of initiatives in this area, including the Open PHACTS project.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0461-0028