Senior Software Developer/Coordinator
DIC, MSc, PhD
Email: apc40@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Background
Alex trained initially as an Earth scientist and studied geophysics (BSc, Cardiff), exploration geophysics (DIC, MSc, Imperial) and marine geophysics (PhD, London). He has worked as a research scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, and as a senior software engineer and project scientist in the oil and gas industry.
Since 2005, Alex has worked in CCGE as a computer programmer on the BOADICEA and CanRisk projects. During this time, he developed Perl-CGI/JavaScript Web interfaces for four versions of the BOADICEA Web Application, and has overseen the development of the Python-Django/JavaScript Web interface for the CanRisk Tool.
In recent years, Alex has focussed on regulatory affairs. In 2019, he led a project to achieve regulatory compliance (CE marking) for the CanRisk Tool. The CanRisk Tool was the first program of its kind to carry the CE marking.
Alex writes code and solves practical problems of software reliability, Web security and data protection in a healthcare setting. His work helps to ensure that our software is safe and easy to use.
Research Interests
- Implementing scientific software on the Web
- Solving practical problems of software reliability, Web security and data protection in a healthcare setting
- Clinical software development best practice
- Regulatory affairs
Selected Publications
Carver T, Hartley S, Lee A, Cunningham AP, Archer S, Babb de Villiers C, Roberts J, Ruston R, Walter FM, Tischkowitz M, Easton DF and Antoniou AC. in press. CanRisk Tool – A web interface for the prediction of breast and ovarian cancer risk and the likelihood of carrying genetic pathogenic variants. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
Lee A, Mavaddat N, Wilcox AN, Cunningham AP, Carver T, Hartley S, Babb de Villiers C, Izquierdo A, Simard J, Schmidt MK, Walter FM, Chatterjee N, Garcia-Closas M, Tischkowitz M, Pharoah P, Easton DF and Antoniou AC. 2019. BOADICEA: a comprehensive breast cancer risk prediction model incorporating genetic and nongenetic risk factors. Genetics in Medicine, 21:8, doi: 10.1038/s41436-018-0406-9.
Cunningham AP, Antoniou AC and Easton, DF. 2012. Clinical software development for the Web: lessons learned from the BOADICEA project, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 12:30, doi:10.1186/1472-6947-12-30.