Charlotte Deane is a computational biologist whose core research is developing novel insights, algorithms and databases for predicting and understanding the immune system; and structure-based drug discovery. Her major contributions are in antibody curation, design and testing (SAbDab, OAS) and developing tools and benchmarks for AI in drug discovery (Posebusters). All her work is openly available and widely used. She has developed computational tools in AI for biomedicine, made fundamental methodological developments, and created pandemic-era resources (CovAbDab) and industry standard tools (TAP).
Charlotte is currently the Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She is a Fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology. She also has a longstanding interest in the commercialisation of academic research.
She served on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies during the Covid-19 pandemic and was awarded an MBE in 2022 for services to Covid research.
Professional position
- Professor Structural Bioinformatics, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
- Executive Chair, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford, University of Oxford
