Suzanne Brewerton

Dr. Brewerton is Wren’s Head of Data and Analytics. Previously, she worked at AstraZeneca where she was a senior leader in the R&D IT organization, responsible for Data, Analytics, and IT strategy for Oncology and Precision Medicine. Dr. Brewerton is a proven leader with more than 20 years of experience working with teams in data engineering, data management, software engineering, and analytics, including ML and AI, across various domains such as genomics, multi-omics, and structure-based drug discovery. She has led multiple, matrixed, multi-disciplinary teams in both start-ups and pharma to build data and analytics platforms and has worked and lived in both the UK and Singapore. Dr. Brewerton completed her BSc in Biochemistry at the University of Manchester during which she became interested in computational biology and analytics. She then completed her Ph.D. in protein structural bioinformatics at the University of Cambridge, where she studied the prediction of domain boundaries, repeating motifs, and unstructured regions in proteins.