The ORDI team

Steering Committee

ORDI is led and managed by a steering committee comprised of senior rare disease researchers and clinicians from the University of Oxford and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Dame Kay Davies

Chair, Oxford Rare Disease Initiative
Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Matthew Wood

Director, Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre
Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Paediatrics

Frances Platt

Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Department of Pharmacology

Jenny Taylor

Programme Director, Genomic Medicine Theme, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

Chas Bountra

Chief Scientist, Structural Genomics Consortium
Nuffield Department of Medicine

Irene Roberts

Professor of Paediatric Haematology
Honarary Consultant Paediatric Haematologist
Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Wyatt Yue

Associate Professor, Structural Genomics Consortium
Nuffield Department of Medicine

Support

The steering committee is supported by Business Development Medical Sciences who are providing support for industry interactions and the day-to-day running of ORDI.

Maxine Allen, Head of Business Development and Partnering

Martin Kerr, Industry Partnerships Manager