Christophe Lambert, PhD GSK

Christophe Lambert is Associate Director in Data Science at GSK Vaccines in Belgium. He graduated B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry and was awarded PhD in bioinformatics from the University of Namur (Belgium) in 2003 for the automated prediction of protein 3D structures and for the automated bacterial genome annotation. In 2003, Dr. Lambert co-founded a company providing expert bioinformatics services to pharmaceutical, biotech and agrofood companies. In 2006, he also co-founded BioWin, the Health competitiveness cluster of Wallonia (Belgium), bringing together stakeholders participating in innovative projects and/or education in the fields of Health biotechnology and medical technologies. He joined GSK in 2014 to provide expertise in protein 3D structure, HTS data analysis and manage the development of an analysis pipeline for Adventitious Virus Detection. Since 2016, Dr. Lambert is the leader of the AVDTIG Subgroup D exploring bioinformatics pipelines and reviewing best practices and perspectives about using HTS for virus detection.