# Ewan Birney

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## TL;DR

Computational biologist who directs EMBL-EBI, home of the open genomic and cancer data resources used worldwide.

## Summary

Ewan Birney is Director of EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) near Cambridge, UK. He is a computational biologist who played leading roles in the ENCODE project and the Ensembl genome browser, and has co-led the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. EMBL-EBI hosts open resources, including the European Genome-phenome Archive and Open Targets, that underpin cancer genomics research.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: leadership; genomics; bioinformatics
- Role: Director of EMBL-EBI
- Specialisms: Genomics; Bioinformatics; Functional genomics

## Sources

- Institution profile: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/leadership
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Birney+E%5BAuthor%5D

## Connected records

- institutions: [EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute](https://onco.cc/institutions/embl-ebi/)

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