Alex Whitehead
Senior Immunologist at Draper
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Whitehead is a Senior Immunologist based in Boston with nine years of experience at the intersection of bioengineering, immunology, stem cells, and next-generation sequencing. Trained as an NSF-GRFP–funded PhD researcher and MD/PhD student, Alex has translated mechanistic insights from myocardial fibrosis and fungal immunity into applied research roles, most recently at Draper. He blends rigorous bench skills—RT-PCR, cell culture, histology—with computational curiosity, coding for fun in spare time to support reproducible analysis and data-driven experiments. Passionate about public health and medical innovation, he is experienced in mentoring, teaching, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across academia and industry. Notably, his background spans both clinical exposure in infectious disease and cardiology and advanced engineering approaches to immune modulation.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor's Degree, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Sophomore, Bachelor's Degree, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Sophomore at Virginia Commonwealth University
German, English
Github Skills (5)
seq3
rna-seq3
border3
bioinformatics2
windows1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
azzoam/ggBrackets
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 15 pushes in 2 months
azzoam/azzoR
May 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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