Dr Rackham is a world expert in developing computational approaches for cell reprogramming and disease-gene association. His group works on identifying key regulators that can control cell fate to find novel routes for cell conversion or targeted therapies. He has extensive expertise in high-throughput sequencing data, biological network analysis and statistics. He completed his PhD in complexity sciences in 2012, after which he became an MRC career development fellow at Imperial College London. In 2015 he moved to Duke-NUS medical school as a senior research fellow and subsequently started his group in 2016, focusing on data-driven tools for cell reprogramming and disease. He became jointly appointed at Southampton University in 2020 as an Associate Professor in Systems Biology. He is also the theme lead for Cell and Molecular Medicine at the Alan Turing Institute.