Euan Ashley

Euan Ashley
Residence	Stanford, California
Known for	Genomics, Precision medicine, MyHeart Counts
Awards	National Innovation Award, American Heart Association NIH Director's New Innovator Award

National Innovation Award, American Heart Association

Euan Angus Ashley is Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University in California. He is director of the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, the Clinical Genomics service and Chair of the Biomedical Data Science Initiative.

Ashley was born in Scotland and attended the University of Glasgow where he graduated in Physiology and Medicine. He completed residency training in Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and received his Doctorate (DPhil) from Christ Church College.

Ashley learned saxophone as a teenager joining the Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra and forming a jazz saxophone quartet with members of its saxophone section. At Oxford, Ashley led the Oxford University Jazz Orchestra. He toured internationally with all groups and released three albums including one with the bebop altoist Peter King.

Ashley is best known for his work translating insight from the human genome to medicine. In 2009, he led the team that carried out the first medical interpretation of a human genome. The work was featured at the Unlocking Life’s Code Exhibit of the Smithsonian museum and recognized at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy “Data to Knowledge to Action” event. In 2014, Dr Ashley became co-chair of the steering committee of the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network. Dr Ashley is a recipient of the National Innovation Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) and a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award.

...
Wikipedia