Full Name
Federica Di Palma
Job Title
CSO & VP Research and Innovation
Company/Org.
Genome British Columbia
Speaker Bio
Dr. Federica Di Palma holds a PhD in Immunogenetics from the University of Reading and brings over 15 years of experience in genomics and data science, with strong international connections in the US through institutions such as NIH, Harvard, and MIT. Most recently she was Director of Science at the Earlham Institute in the United Kingdom where she led the Institute BBSRC core strategic programme in food security, as well as a wide variety of research programmes aimed at delivering the cross-disciplinary application of novel computational and molecular biology technologies to the understanding of living systems.
Federica Di Palma