Gareth Price

I build the connective tissue between the lab and the software that makes it scale: automated assays, analytical data products and the engineering practices around them.

• Turn complex ELISA, qPCR, extraction and cell-culture workflows into dependable automated systems on Hamilton platforms.
• Help scientific teams adopt the less visible foundations too: data pipelines, GitHub, CI/CD, release practices and practical support across the organisation.

I investigated how connexin and purinergic signalling shapes cell communication, inflammation and fibrosis in the diabetic kidney, with the aim of finding future therapeutic targets.

• Combined cell culture, molecular biology and functional assays to connect changes at the cell membrane with disease progression.
• Led several research projects, collaborated internationally and shared the work through publications, conferences and student supervision.

A combined computational and experimental foundation: MOAC MSc training in discovery science, then a Diabetes UK-funded PhD on cell communication in the diabetic kidney.

• The MSc brought together molecular dynamics, docking and GPU/HPC work with wet-lab biology, and led to OpenDiscovery, an open-source molecular-docking tool.
• For the PhD, I moved with the research group from Warwick to Lincoln and used experimental biology to study hemichannel purinergic signalling in the diabetic kidney.