Altuna Akalın
Professor Of Bioinformatics And Health Data Science
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAltuna Akalın is a Group Leader at the Max Delbrück Center with over 20 years at the nexus of computational genomics, bioinformatics, and AI, and 14 years of formal professional experience leading multidisciplinary teams to translate large-scale genomic data into diagnostics and therapeutics, especially for oncology. She combines deep hands-on expertise in high-throughput sequencing, epigenomics, and predictive deep learning with practical experience in build/release automation—having contributed as technical writer and build engineer to an open-source computational genomics book. Her lab focuses on target discovery for solid tumors and ML-driven diagnostic tests for cardiovascular disease, blending academic rigor from a PhD in Genomics & Bioinformatics with translational, patient-centered goals. Trained in entrepreneurship and drug development through Stanford and Harvard Medical School programs, she uniquely bridges research, clinical translation, and product-minded thinking to accelerate precision medicine.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Genomics & Bioinformatics, PhD Genomics & Bioinformatics at University of Bergen (UiB)Other; HMX Fundamentals/Pro online certificate program – Pharmacology - Clinical Drug Development, Other; HMX Fundamentals/Pro online certificate program – Pharmacology - Clinical Drug Development at Harvard Medical SchoolAnkara Atatürk Anadolu LisesiBSc Bioengineering (Bioinformatics track), BSc Bioengineering (Bioinformatics track) at Sabanci UniversityIdea-to-Market Entrepreneurship Program, Idea-to-Market Entrepreneurship Program at Stanford University
Github Skills (6)
github-ci10
githubaction-workflow10
bookdown10
r9
bash8
git7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
compgenomr/book
May 2016 - Jun 2020
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Build Engineer
Technical Writer & Build EngineerContributions:111 commits, 31 PRs, 127 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Altuna primarily contributed to the book's content and build process. They added preface and introduction sections, expanded genomics explanations, and incorporated Google Analytics tracking. Furthermore, the user updated the publishing and deployment scripts, including manual and automated deployment using GitHub Actions, indicating a focus on build and release automation.
BIMSBbioinfo/compgen
Feb 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 138 pushes, 1 comment in 9 years 11 months
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