We Have the Data and the Models. Now Comes the Hard Part

Please join us for our next Bioinformatics London meetup, where we welcome Francisco Azuaje, Director of Bioinformatics and AI at Genomics England, for a talk on what it really takes to turn powerful models and rich datasets into safe, trustworthy impact in the clinic.

Francisco Azuaje is Director of Bioinformatics at Genomics England, where he leads applied ML and GenAI across national-scale genomic and clinical datasets. With 25+ years across academia, public sector and pharma (including UCB and the Luxembourg Institute of Health), his work focuses on what actually works in AI for bioinformatics: moving from proof-of-concept to robust, governed systems that clinicians and patients can trust.
In this talk, he will discuss real-world lessons from deploying AI in genomics pipelines and health data platforms, touching on verification, safety, organisational friction, and why the hard problems now are as much social and operational as they are technical.

Approximate schedule:

• 18:30 – Doors open
• 18:45 – Chitchat, announcements
• 19:00 – Talk and Q&A
• 19:45 – End, then adjourn to a nearby pub for informal discussion

Please RSVP at least the day before so we can provide an attendee list to reception. Make sure your Meetup name looks like a real name (e.g. “J Smith” or “Jane Jones”, not “weaselstabber”) so University of Westminster reception can identify you.

We look forward to seeing you there for an honest discussion about what it takes to make AI and genomics work for real patients, not just in demos.