Professor Charlotte Deane to give keynote address at ARMA 2024

We are delighted to announce that Professor Charlotte Deane MBE will give the keynote address at the ARMA Conference, taking place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel, from 18 – 19 June 2024. Professor Deane is Executive Chair at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). She is Professor of Structural Bioinformatics in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

From 2022 to 2023, she was Chief AI Officer at Exscientia, a biotech company with around 450 employees, where she led its computational scientific development. She has held numerous senior roles at the University of Oxford including Head of the Department of Statistics and Deputy Head of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences division. She was the Deputy Executive Chair of EPSRC from 2019 to 2021. She served on SAGE, the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and acted as UK Research and Innovation’s COVID-19 Response Director. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to COVID-19 research.

At Oxford, she leads the Oxford Protein Informatics Group. The group work on diverse problems across immunoinformatics, protein structure and small molecule drug discovery. They use statistics, artificial intelligence (AI) and computation to generate biological and medical insight. Her work focuses on the development of novel algorithms, tools and databases that are openly available to the community. These tools are widely used web resources and are also part of several pharmaceutical drug discovery pipelines.

The annual conference brings together professionals from research management and the wider research community to connect, learn and share knowledge through a mix of plenary and breakout sessions, poster presentations, commercial exhibition and networking opportunities.

Early bird registration is open for ARMA 2024 until Friday 19 April. Find out more about the conference and book your place at https://www.armaconference.com/