Staff Profile
Leire Abarrategui Martinez
Research Assistant (Statistics)
- Email: leire.abarrategui-martinez@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Room 2.70 Baddiley-Clark Building,
Richardson Road,
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne,
NE2 4AX
Background
Leire Abarrategui is PhD student in co-direction at DataSHIELD team and ISGlobal. Her PhD is focused on the development of privacy-preserving tools for personalized medicine in rare diseases by DNA methylation testing.
Her background is in engineering with a master’s in bioinformatics and Biostatistics. She contributes to DataSHIELD project implementing functions for omics data analysis. She has Collaborated in LITMUS project developing infrastructure and functions for sharing and analysing safely large-scale cohorts, bioresources and multi-omics datasets.