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Abel

Ureta-Vidal

Born in Spain I am a Spanish-born, French-educated and British-inspired
entrepreneur – that gives a very short overview of my career
over the past 25 years.

1999 I was very fortunate to join the Human Genome Project straight
University in after my PhD. I was put in charge of setting up all the data
France and PhD analysis to predict genes on the sequence of chromosome 14.
at Universite de
Paris
1999-2001 For a French man, it was a dream
Genoscope job, i.e. a job for life in an academic
– French
contribution institution, but I wanted a bit more
to the human international exposure and came to
genome project Cambridge and joined the Ensembl
2001-2007 project at EMBL-EBI.
EMBL-EBI –
Project leader
at Ensembl
(Cambridge)

2007-2008 I was analysing genomes to find
MBA (Judge particular genes that determine if you
Business School develop a disease with a small team of
Cambridge)
about five or six people. In 2007 I felt a
bit too comfortable there, and I decided
to leave EMBL-EBI to learn about
business by studying for a MBA at the
Judge Business School.

2008-2020 During that time, I was exposed to
Founder of Eagle the entrepreneurial path and all
Genomics entrepreneurship activities around
2018-Now Cambridge. I then founded Eagle
Member of the Genomics in May 2008, which took
ELIXIR Industry
Advisory Board me on a journey for about 12 years –
(Chair since 2020) moving from bioinformatics consultancy
2020-Now into developing an enterprise software
Investment platform for data and knowledge
Director at CMS management.
Ventures, Co-
founder & Chief
Data Officer of
Sofi Health