Natasha Sahgal
PhD
Programme Manager – Health Data Science
Natasha joined the team as Programme Manager – Health Data Science, and coordinates a portfolio of projects across the NIHR Oxford BRC Translational Data Science Theme, Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Oxford and Transforming Data for Trials programmes. From May 2025, she also joined the Oxford-Novartis Collaboration for AI in Medicine team as a Project Manager.
Prior to joining the BDI, Natasha worked at Imperial College London’s Enterprise Office, where she worked with the NHS staff to translate potential projects into commercial opportunities.
Her post-doctoral work focused on transcriptomic analyses across a wide range of functional genomic projects including expression data, RNA-sequencing and whole genome sequencing data with an emphasis on cancer genetics and the UK Biobank cohort.
She is passionate about data science, healthcare and innovation, enjoys travelling and wishes to learn more languages apart from improving her German.
Recent publications
Heritable genetic variants in key cancer genes link cancer risk with anthropometric traits.
Journal article
Di Giovannantonio M. et al, (2021), J Med Genet, 58, 392 - 399
Germline and Somatic Genetic Variants in the p53 Pathway Interact to Affect Cancer Risk, Progression, and Drug Response.
Journal article
Zhang P. et al, (2021), Cancer Res, 81, 1667 - 1680
miRNAs in the 14q32 cluster are involved in lapatinib resistance
Conference paper
(2019), American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2017
Germline and somatic genetic variants in the p53 pathway interact to affect cancer risk, progression and drug response
Journal article
Zhang P. et al, (2019)
Heritable genetic variants in key cancer genes link cancer risk with anthropometric traits
Preprint
Di Giovannantonio M. et al, (2019)