Rate My Professor Lachlan Coin

A mathematician by background, Professor Coin previously held a Research Council UK Fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College London, where he also served as Honorary Senior Lecturer. He maintains an Honorary Associate Professor appointment at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland. Throughout his career, Coin has been principal investigator on numerous prestigious grants, including Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowships, Discovery Projects totaling over $878,000 for specific projects, NHMRC collaborative grants such as e-ASIA and EU programs, and Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) awards for tackling drug-resistant tuberculosis and other initiatives. His scholarly output includes 369 research works with over 48,467 citations. Notable publications feature "A census of human cancer genes" (2004, Nature Reviews Cancer), which provided a foundational catalog of cancer genes; "Genome graphs reveal the importance of structural variation in bacterial genomes" (2025, Nature Communications); "A flexible framework for minimal biomarker signature discovery from high-dimensional omics data (FS-PLS)" (2024); and "Benchmarking reveals superiority of deep learning variant callers on bacterial genomes" (2024, eLife). These contributions have significantly influenced bioinformatics, cancer genomics, and infectious disease research.