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Biography
Christian Cole is a Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics and leads the research team in the Health Informatics Centre (HIC). His research interests are in developing tools and infrastructure to advance data analysis capabilities within Trusted Research Environments (TREs) where healthcare data are securely held. He is also interested in making AI/ML more directly clinically relevant by using real-world datasets to better model the diversity of data.
Chris is Director of the Alleviate Advanced Pain Discovery Platform. It is one of nine HDR UK funded national data hub specialising pain and chronic pain. The aim of Alleviate is to make UK pain data more accessible and securely sharable to accelerate research.
He has held previous roles as a Principle Investigator in Data Science at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science and lead of the Data Analysis Group in the School of Life Science at the University of Dundee.
His expertise is in Bioinformatics and Data Science gained over his postdoctoral career at UMIST, The University of Manchester and, most recently, within the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. In that time, Chris was the founder member and latterly the co-ordinator of the Data Analysis Group; a team dedicated to collaboration on biological projects requiring computational and statistical direction. At LRCFS Chris introduced data science principles and open and reproducible science. In particular around large-scale collaborative projects to collect ground truth datasets. He led projects on machine learning of ignitable liquids, footwear marks and DNA profile analysis. He also applied bioinformatics tools on new forensic DNA methods. Chris has a BSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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The Alleviate Advanced Pain Discovery Platform Data Hub: A national resource for accessing and sharing pain data
Milligan, G., Hall, C., Appleby, P., Masood, E., Martin, G., Beggs, J., Chuter, A., Giles, T., Armando, V., Quinlan, P. & Cole, C., 10 May 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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The protein kinases of Dictyostelia and their incorporation into a signalome
Kin, K., Chen, Z-H., Forbes, G., Lawal, H., Schilde, C., Singh, R., Cole, C., Barton, G. J. & Schaap, P., Aug 2023, In: Cellular Signalling. 108, 12 p., 110714.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Use of AI and access to banked bio samples for the detection and diagnosis of patients with heart failure from electronic health records: a population cohort study
Oo, M. M., Gao, C., Cole, C., Hummel, Y., Guignard-Duff, M., Jefferson, E., Hare, J., Voors, A., de Boer, R., Lam, C. S. P., Tromp, J. & Lang, C. C., 14 Feb 2023, In: Scottish Medical Journal. 68, 1, p. NP5-NP10 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract › peer-review
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A Hybrid Architecture (CO-CONNECT) to Facilitate Rapid Discovery and Access to Data Across the United Kingdom in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development Study
Jefferson, E., Cole, C., Mumtaz, S., Cox, S., Giles, T., Adejumo, S., Urwin, E., Lea, D., McDonald, C., Best, J., Masood, E., Milligan, G., Johnston, J., Horban, S., Birced, I., Hall, C., Jackson, A., Collins, C., Rising, S., Dodsley, C., & 57 others , 27 Dec 2022, In: Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24, 12, 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A National Network of Safe Havens: Scottish Perspective
Gao, C., McGilchrist, M., Mumtaz, S., Hall, C., Anderson, L., Zurowski, J., Gordon, S., Lumsden, J., Munro, V., Wozniak, A., Sibley, M., Banks, C., Duncan, C., Linksted, P., Hume, A., Stables, C., Mayor, C., Caldwell, J., Wilde, K., Cole, C., & 1 others , 9 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24, 3, 16 p., e31684.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Image Data from Transfer and Persistence of UV powder trace material
Cole, C. (Editor), Menard, H. (Data Collector), Nic Daeid, N. (Contributor), Mudie, R. (Contributor), Lawson, M. (Creator), Green, S. (Creator), Doyle, S. (Creator), Macneill, E. (Creator) & Hamilton, B. (Creator), University of Dundee, 21 May 2021
DOI: 10.15132/10000166, https://dmail.sharepoint.com/:u:/s/ResearchServicesPublicDocuments/ES88n8OVCwNGlZGqzI3A0f4BQCOlITjOHGUWQyctvA5U8Q?e=QrW7J1
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Walker Study Data
Health Informatics Centre, A. C. (Creator), Cole, C. (Other), Jefferson, E. (Other) & Johnston, J. (Other), University of Dundee, 11 Nov 2021
DOI: 10.15132/10000207, https://web.www.healthdatagateway.org/dataset/245bffa9-07c3-40b6-916b-161062cdf674
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Tayside & Fife Diabetes – Summary and a range of diabetes related datasets
Health Informatics Centre, A. C. (Creator), SCI Diabetes, A. C. (Creator), Cole, C. (Other), Jefferson, E. (Other) & Johnston, J. (Other), University of Dundee, 15 Jun 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15132/10000203, https://web.www.healthdatagateway.org/dataset/49e63323-e564-48ac-9f11-cf77bf0fe20b
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HIC Transplantation
Health Informatics Centre, A. C. (Creator), Cole, C. (Other), Jefferson, E. (Other) & Johnston, J. (Other), University of Dundee, 10 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.15132/10000204, https://web.www.healthdatagateway.org/dataset/359a322e-3781-4796-b6b2-81962fa19b7a
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Tayside Bowel Screening Dataset
Health Informatics Centre, A. C. (Creator), NHS Tayside, A. C. (Creator), Cole, C. (Other), Jefferson, E. (Other) & Johnston, J. (Other), University of Dundee, 8 Sept 2021
DOI: 10.15132/10000205, https://web.www.healthdatagateway.org/dataset/00201dde-1faf-41d3-b282-5c24c0ca3697
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Gold Engage Watermark for Public Engagement
Nic Daeid, Niamh (Recipient), Marra, Michael (Recipient), Doran, Heather (Recipient), Mudie, Roy (Recipient), Adegoke, Oluwasesan (Recipient), Klu, Joyce (Recipient), Comrie, Emma (Recipient), Cole, Christian (Recipient), Menard, Herve (Recipient), Hackman, Lucina (Recipient), Gray, Alexander (Recipient), Barros, Magda (Recipient), Dennison-Wilkins, Lorna (Recipient), Dzetkulicová, Veronika (Recipient), Galais, Virginie (Recipient), Houston, Andrew (Recipient), Inman, Keith (Recipient), Kuffel, Aga (Recipient), Laisney, Oceane (Recipient), Sobreira, Catarina (Recipient), Yu, Sean (Recipient), Zuppello, Micol (Recipient), Menzies, Simon-Lewis (Recipient), Daly, Laura (Recipient), Davis, Marj (Recipient), McFadyen, Paul (Recipient) & De Carvalho, Loic (Recipient), 4 Dec 2019
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Winner ISCB Art in Science Competition 2017
Cole, Christian (Recipient) & Schurch, Nicholas (Recipient), 25 Jul 2017
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Activities
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SATRE and The Future Landscape Of UK TREs
Hari Sood (Organiser) & Christian Cole (Organiser)
8 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Other event
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Trusted Research Environment Workshop
Christian Cole (Member), Jillian Beggs (Contributor), Antony Chuter (Chair), Hari Sood (Contributor), Martin O'Reilly (Member) & Katie Oldfield (Member)
28 Mar 2023Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
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Trusted Research Environment Workshop
Christian Cole (Member), Jillian Beggs (Contributor), Antony Chuter (Chair) & Katie Oldfield (Member)
30 Mar 2023Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
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Pain Data Workshop – APDP Community Event
Christian Cole (Chair) & Gordon Milligan (Organiser)
26 May 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Other event
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SATRE and The Future Landscape Of UK TREs
Hari Sood (Organiser) & Christian Cole (Organiser)
10 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Other event
Press/Media
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€15M European Project Aims to Pilot New Omics-Based Diagnostics for Hypertension
31/03/23
1 Media contribution
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Five projects awarded to Scottish Regional Safe Havens to simplify access to data
8/12/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Five projects awarded to Scottish Regional Safe Havens to simplify access to data
28/11/22
1 item of Media coverage
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Lessons can be learned: Experts hope new data can help to improve Dundee drug services
Christian Cole, Niamh Nic Daeid, Michael Marra & Craig McKenzie
27/10/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research