Manuel Corpas

Dr. Manuel Corpas is a globally recognized genomicist and health data scientist at the University of Westminster. He serves as President of the Spanish Congress of Genomic Medicine and is a Fellow of both the Alan Turing Institute and the Software Sustainability Institute.

His research sits at the intersection of genomics, AI, and health equity, with a focus on closing representation gaps, especially across Latin America. Key research areas include:

• Population-scale genomics projects using long-read sequencing (ONT) and multi-omics
• Development of the Health Equity Informative Marker (HEIM) framework
• Application of LLMs and advanced analytics to EHR-linked biobanks
• Mapping field trends via large-scale MeSH/semantic clustering
• Evaluating platform bias (arrays vs WGS) and global population diversity

Dr. Corpas leads the Health Data Science Research Group and has supervision interests in Polygenic Risk Scores, Statistical Genetics, Whole Genome/Exome Analysis, Population Genomics, Diversity Genomics, and Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.

His notable recognitions include:

• Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute
• Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute
• President of the Spanish Congress of Genomic Medicine

With over 80 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Corpas has advanced the frontiers of equity in precision medicine. He has contributed to widely adopted clinical and open-source tools, including DECIPHER for rare disease diagnosis and BioJS for genomic data visualization. His work spans population genomics, pharmacogenomics, and biobanking, with a longstanding commitment to underserved and underrepresented populations.