Dr Stephen J Newhouse

Head of Professional Services & Senior Bioinformatician at Biorelate. Bioinformatics, ML, agentic AI.

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Hi, I’m Stephen.

I’ve spent 20+ years in bioinformatics, genomics, and life-sciences data science. That sounds like a long time until you remember how much the field has changed in just the last five. The questions stay the same though: how do we make sense of complex biomedical data, and how do we turn it into something that actually helps people?

At Biorelate I lead Professional Services. In practice that means making sure the science we’re doing connects to what our clients actually need: accelerating a drug-discovery pipeline, untangling a messy real-world data workflow, or helping a team understand what they’ve got and what they can do with it.

Before this I worked across academia, the NHS, and pharma, building and leading teams, shipping ML models, and trying to make large-scale data projects land well in the real world.

Somewhere along the way I appear to have become an Agentic Engineer. Not by design, more by osmosis and a stubborn refusal to fall behind the LLM Joneses. Right now I’m particularly interested in where knowledge graphs, RAG, and multi-omics data are heading, and what that means for personalised medicine.

Always happy to connect with people working at the intersection of data, biology, and drug discovery. → LinkedIn · Email

Recent outcomes

  • Helped secure £400K+ in new client contracts for Biorelate this year.
  • Lead engineer on Biorelate’s Professional Services internal biomedical AI agent tooling (memory, tool-use, evaluation, biomedical knowledge-graph reasoning). Built for our delivery team; now integrated into large-pharma clients’ own internal LLM and tech stacks.
  • Delivered a target safety assessment app for a life-sciences pharma client. Knowledge graph + LLM evidence retrieval, programmatic citation, regulator-ready outputs.
  • Designed and ran a Langdock integration evaluation for Biorelate: managed-AI platform integration, test harnesses, integration patterns.

What I’m working on

  • Biomedical AI at Biorelate. Knowledge graphs, NLP, target, drug, and biomarker discovery, indication expansion.
  • Agentic AI. Memory, tool-use, evaluation. See aa-ma-forge.
  • Genomics tooling. Curating awesome-genetics-software.
  • Writing & sharing. See the blog and archived talks.