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James Cuff, (born Preston, Lancashire) is a British biophysicist. He is currently the Director of Research Computing and Chief Technology Architect at Harvard University. Cuff has held leadership positions at the Broad Institute, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute.

Education
He has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from Christ Church, Oxford, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from The University of Manchester.

Research
Cuff worked as a part of teams that completed the first simultaneous genome analysis of twenty nine mammals, the refinement of the human gene count , and the first bivalent chromatin structures to be found in embryonic stem cells. In addition, he has contributed to several large-scale bioinformatics and computational biology projects including Ensembl, Jalview , and the first online consensus secondary structure prediction algorithm JPred. He supported the resolution of the mouse, dog and monodelphis genomes  and the early ENCODE project.

Current
Based on early work with computer clusters, has aided with the design and architecture of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, a multimillion dollar data center project between Harvard University, MIT, Boston University, Northeastern University, and  University of Massachusetts. He is also a co-developed on a popular open source authentication method called JAuth. Cuff is also a Principle within the Harvard University Silvio O. Conte Center.