1. MRC Council Meeting 10 th July 2014 Gateshead Informatics Session Alex Markham University of Leeds Infrastructure for Collaboration: The Leeds MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre

2. Infrastructure for Collaboration: the Leeds MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre However did I get involved in this field?

3. Infrastructure for Collaboration: the Leeds MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre Have we made progress?

5. Infrastructure for Collaboration: the Leeds MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre

6. Infrastructure for Collaboration: The Leeds MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre The Funders’ Strategic Co-ordination Group 2009-date The Clinical Practice Research Datalink 2012-date

8. The Leeds MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre

9. Our MRC Centre Partners: a growing list…. University of Leeds Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (PPM) Leeds Care Record Leeds Informatics Board Leeds City Council Leeds and Partners Leeds Community Health Trust The Health and Social Care Information Centre The Pheonix Partnership: SystmOne EMIS The Farr Institute Clinical Practice Research Datalink Public Health England (NCIN) NHS England NIHR CRNCC and Informatics INVOLVE N8 Universities, High Performance Computing YHMAN Northern Health Science Alliance X-Lab/Q-Tool IBM, Phillips Cancer Research UK Logicalis

10. The Leeds MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre Thank you for inviting me (and sorry if I went on for too long)