Andrew’s research group focuses on the acceleration of health sciences research and new clinical diagnostics through novel artificial intelligence and statistical data science methodology, as well as data collection and management platforms. His team works in highly multidisciplinary environments to both lead and support investigations across three strands of research: Profiling the protein and metabolite content of biological fluids and tissues using mass spectrometry proteomics and metabolomics for understanding disease mechanism, and to discover biomarkers for clinical diagnostics; Constructing secure research platforms and developing predictive models from population-level health and environmental data to develop interventions for One Health challenges such as anti-microbial resistance; Intensive longitudinal health, activity and behavioural monitoring at the level of individual animals and groups of animals for welfare and environmental sustainability.

Andrew has a joint position in Bristol Veterinary School and the Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medicial School. He is AI lead for the John Oldacre Centre at Bristol Veterinary School, where he is also Population Health Theme Lead and Impact Director. He is Director for Enterprise & Impact in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Fellowships Director for the EPSRC LEAP Digital Health Hub, and a Turing Fellow. Previously, he was Research Director for Bristol Veterinary School, founding Director of the John Oldacre Centre and an Associate Director of the HDR-UK South-West Better Care Partnership. He held an EPSRC Overseas Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Life Sciences Interface between the Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and University College Dublin, an MRC New Investigator Research Grant at the Centre for Advanced Discovery and Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Manchester, and was a Reader in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool.

Current Staff

• Axel Montout (PDRA)
• Jing Gao (PDRA)
• Marco Ramirez Montes de Oca (Senior PDRA)
• Léo Gorman (JGI Data Science Specialist)

Current Postgraduate Students (Main Supervisor; PhD unless specified)

• Tim Dong
• Ed Barker (EPSRC CDT in Digital Health)
• Asheesh Sharma (joint with Melvyn Smith, UWE; BBSRC SWBio CDT)
• Harry Tata (EPSRC COMPASS CDT; funded by AstraZeneca)
• Dan Milner (EPSRC COMPASS CDT; joint funded by ILRI)
• Yuijie Dai (EPSRC CDT in Digital Health)
• Meng Du (GW4 BioMed MRC DTP)
• Daria Baran (Bristol PhD Scholarship)
• Brooke Bennett (MScR; funded by The Langford Trust)
• Huimin Liu (China Scholarship Council)

Current Postgraduate Students (Co-supervisor; PhD unless specified)

• Abbie Williams (lead Laura Peachey; BBSRC SWBio CDT)
• Zoe Parr-Cortes (lead Nicola Rooney; BBSRC SWBio CDT)
• Elliot Stanton (lead Kristen Reyher; BBSRC SWBio CDT)
• Sara Hall (lead Daniel Enriquez-Hidalgo; BBSRC SWBio CDT)
• Mike Nsubuga (lead Sion Bayliss; GW4 BioMed MRC DTP)
• Aimee Daum (lead Matthew Avison; Bristol PhD Scholarship)
• Amy Fitzgerald (lead Carlos Garcia de Leaniz; joint funded by Swansea University & Visifish)

Graduated Postgraduate Students

• Tom Zuffa (2024), "Investigation of factors associated with poor performance and lameness in endurance and thoroughbred flat racing"
• Léo Gorman PhD (2024), "Leveraging the power of household surveys in agricultural research for development"
• Axel Montout PhD (2023), "Prediction of poor health in small ruminants and companion animals with accelerometers and machine learning"
• Lucy Vass PhD (2023), "Statistical modelling methodology for investigating risk factors of antimicrobial use and resistance: applied to UK dairy farms"
• Jon Massey PhD (2021), "Barriers to population-level AMR research in UK livestock and opportunities for data science"
• Al Phillips PhD (2020), "Bayesian methods for protein quantification in mass spectrometry proteomics"

Alumni

• Brian Sullivan (Senior PDRA)
• Ranjeet Bhamber (Research Fellow)
• Gina Caplen (Senior PDRA)
• Jo Hockenhull (Senior PDRA)
• Louis MacGregor (Senior PDRA)
• Will Andrew (PDRA)
• Hanqing Liao (PDRA)
• Andris Jankevics (PDRA)
• Yan Zhang (PDRA)