19 Facts About Euan Ashley

Euan Angus Ashley is Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University in California.

Euan Ashley is founding director of the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, the Clinical Genomics Program and co-director of Stanford Medicine Catalyst.

Euan Ashley was born in Scotland and attended the University of Glasgow where he graduated in Physiology and Medicine.

Euan Ashley completed residency training in Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and received his Doctorate from Christ Church College.

Euan Ashley learned saxophone as a teenager joining the Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra and forming a jazz saxophone quartet with members of its saxophone section.

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At Oxford, Euan Ashley led the Oxford University Jazz Orchestra with whom he released the album Know Where you Are with bebop altoist Peter King.

Euan Ashley is best known for his work translating insight from the human genome to medicine.

In 2010, Euan Ashley's team carried out the first whole genome molecular autopsy.

In 2014, Euan Ashley became co-chair of the steering committee of the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network .

Euan Ashley is a recipient of the National Innovation Award from the American Heart Association and a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award.

Euan Ashley is co-Principal Investigator of the MyHeart Counts study, a launch partner for Apple Inc's ResearchKit platform in 2015.

Euan Ashley has authored one textbook, Cardiology Explained, and over 400 peer reviewed publications.

Euan Ashley has appeared on National Public Radio in the United States as well as the BBC, Japanese national television and the Guardian newspaper discussing genome sequencing and precision medicine.

Euan Ashley's work has been covered in print by The Wall Street Journal, Technology Review, The Daily Telegraph and others.

Euan Ashley has been interviewed multiple times for local and national news.

Euan Ashley was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in October 2020.

In 2012, Euan Ashley co-founded Personalis, a genome-scale diagnostics company with Stanford colleagues Russ Altman, Atul Butte, Mike Snyder and businessman John West.

Euan Ashley is scientific co-founder of Deepcell, a company developing AI powered cell sorting and analysis platforms.

Euan Ashley is co-founder and chairman of the board at Silicon Valley Exercise Analytics, a sports intelligence company that combines physical, subjective and biological data to offer optimized training, performance and recovery recommendations for athletes and teams.