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Dr Marketa J Zvelebil. Born 	23 May 1960 Prague, Czech Republic Citizenship 	Czech-Dutch Education 	PhD Alma mater 	University of Sussex Birkbeck College Occupation 	Research Scientist Parent(s) 	Kamil Zvelebil Sibling(s)     Marek Zvelebil

Dr Marketa J Zvelebil was Head of Cancer informatics at the Institute of Cancer Research, and Honorary Faculty at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK.

Zvelebil's research interests are in Bioinformatics, Computational Cancer Biology and Genome Informatics.

Dr. Marketa Zvelebil did her PhD at Birkbeck College with Professor Michael J Sternberg. She was one of the first to use multiple sequence alignments in predicting the secondary structure of proteins.

Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now CRUK) she joined Professor Janet Thornton at University College London, then joined the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research where she developed a Cancer Informatics group. Her main interest at the Institute was in the structural and mutational effects of the PI3Kinase proteins that play an integral role in cancer. In 2007 she joined the Institute of Cancer Research where she was appointed a team leader of the newly created Cancer Informatics. Due to disability she retired in 2013 and now holds an honorary position at the Institute as well as being on the scientific advisory board of PIQUR Therapeutics.

She is also a co-author of a text book on Bioinformatics as well as an editor of the Encyclopaedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and over 100 journal articles.