Dr Rajbir Batra

Rajbir Nath Batra is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge, UK. He works at the interface of computational biology and epigenomics to develop next generation cancer diagnostics and precision medicine approaches, with a strong interest in translating academic innovation into clinical and entrepreneurial impact.

Dr Batra earned an MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Mathematical Genomics and Medicine from the University of Cambridge. He subsequently held a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany. His research focuses on developing advanced methods for the analysis of large scale epigenomic data and applying them to patient cohorts to identify biomarkers for cancer detection, prognosis, therapeutic stratification, and treatment resistance.

He has published in leading international journals including Nature, Cell, Nature Genetics, and Nature Communications, and has received multiple national and international research grants, prizes, and fellowships.