Summary
Andrey Tovchigrechko is a Senior AI Scientist and computational biologist with 18 years of experience building AI-driven protein and immune receptor discovery platforms for oncology, autoimmunity and infectious disease. He has led cross-functional bioinformatics and sequencing teams at BioNTech, Kite and AstraZeneca, driving diffusion- and LLM-based approaches for protein design, single-cell and long-read NGS assay development, and GxP-capable cloud-native genomics workflows. His work uniquely blends hands-on algorithm and tool development (Python, R, C++, Nextflow/CWL) with PI-level strategy, including a patent on tumor-reactive TCR prediction and production-grade sequencing platforms for mRNA vaccines and cell therapies. Comfortable as an individual contributor or leader, he pairs deep structural biology and ML expertise with practical clinical-facing systems design to shorten discovery-to-translation timelines.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD biophysics, PhD biophysics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology