James Cuff

James Andrew Cuff, (born Preston, Lancashire) is a British biophysicist. He is the Assistant Dean for Research Computing at Harvard University. Cuff has held leadership positions at the Broad Institute, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute.

Education

Cuff holds a Ph.D. in Protein structure prediction from the University of Oxford, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from The University of Manchester.

Research

Cuff's research investigates genomics, protein structure prediction, bioinformatics and High Performance Computing (HPC). Cuff worked as a part of teams that completed the first simultaneous genome analysis of twenty nine mammals, the refinement of the human gene count, and the first bivalent chromatin structures to be found in embryonic stem cells. In addition, Cuff has contributed to several large-scale bioinformatics and computational biology projects including Ensembl,Jalview, and the first online consensus secondary structure prediction algorithm JPred. He supported the resolution of the mouse, dog and monodelphis genomes and the early ENCODE project.