Elena Navarro-Guerrero is the Head of Functional Genomics at the Target Discovery Institute, Centre for Medicines Discovery, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.  Elena oversees the portfolio of CRISPR-Cas9 screens within the lab and supervises students and researchers. She joined Xcellomics in 2021, a partnership between Exscientia, an AI-driven pharmatech company, and the University of Oxford. She is part of a research team working on a platform to run phenotypic screens adapted to different cell models using CRISPR-Cas9, a clever tool which enables the finding of regulatory mechanisms and gene targets relevant to disease. She has optimized some high-content sortable read outs for marker-based CRISPR screens, escalating the available cellular phenotypes in the platform. Current research involves the development of an approach to integrate CRISPR-Cas9 machinery into human iPS-derived cells.