Experience

Link Cell Therapies

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Scientist

  • Mar 2023 - Present



Instil Bio

• Biotechnology
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Scientist

  • Apr 2022 - Mar 2023



UCLA

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Jun 2021 - Apr 2022

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • Aug 2016 - Jun 2021

  - Designed an integrated measure of type two diabetes and fit a DNA methylation based predictive model to this measure- Built a high performance bisulfite sequencing processing platform written in C, C++, and Python- Developed a novel statistical model of epigenetic aging to model non-linear epigenetic aging and open sourced the model as a Python package - Built an analysis pipeline to assess inactivation of CAR T-cell therapy vectors following product infusion using DNA methylation and vector integration location- Designed a targeted bisulfite sequencing method and implemented an optimized analysis pipeline- Collaborated with researches, clinicians, and support staff to implement research projects and meet project goals- Managed several parallel research projects, completing simultaneous tasks and delegating appropriate tasks to assistants- Carried out large scale data processing on high performance computing clusters and AWS- Instituted lab wide version control best practice to ease collaboration and foster reproducibility Show less



University of Utah School of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • Feb 2013 - Aug 2016

  - Analyzed sequencing data to identify causative genetic variants in clinical cases diagnosed with iron homeostasis and heme synthesis disorders - Integrated PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, and Illumina sequencing data to assemble a high quality reference genome for the Babraham pig breed with intact T-Cell Receptor loci for vaccine development - Performed CRISPR KO analysis to identify ligands targeted by a ubiquitous cancer killing T-Cell line - Analyzed sequencing data to identify causative genetic variants in clinical cases diagnosed with iron homeostasis and heme synthesis disorders - Integrated PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, and Illumina sequencing data to assemble a high quality reference genome for the Babraham pig breed with intact T-Cell Receptor loci for vaccine development - Performed CRISPR KO analysis to identify ligands targeted by a ubiquitous cancer killing T-Cell line