As the Head of Bioinformatics Core Facility, Dr Jason Li leads a team of bioinformaticians and computer scientists to provide consulting and analysis services to Peter Mac research laboratories, and develop and maintain computational pipelines to process high-throughput sequencing data.

Jason holds a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Melbourne. He joined Peter Mac Research in 2007 and was appointed Senior Core Facility Manager of Bioinformatics in 2017.

Jason’s expertise lies in the analysis of large-scale genomics data derived from high-throughput sequencing/microarray experiments, and currently leads multiple Artificial Intelligence initiatives across the organisation.

Jason has supervised multiple postgraduate and undergraduate research students and is devoted to training up bioinformaticians from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Current research activities include the application of Large Language Models in clinical report analysis, and deep learning in cancer multi-omics and medical imaging.