Aurora Blucher
Director Of Computational Biology
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAurora Blucher is a Director of Computational Biology with 11 years of experience translating computational science into drug discovery impact, currently leading a multidisciplinary dry-lab and hybrid team at Recursion. She combines a PhD in Bioinformatics with deep postdoctoral work at the Knight Cancer Institute to build evidence-driven, pathway-aware models that prioritize therapeutic vulnerabilities in oncology. Aurora has progressed through senior scientific and leadership roles at Recursion, applying probabilistic and systems approaches developed during her Cancer Targetome research to accelerate target prioritization and patient-stratified hypotheses. Based in Salt Lake City, she balances rigorous academic grounding with product-focused execution, shepherding methods from probabilistic graphical models to practical drug discovery pipelines. An understated strength is her ability to codify uncertainty in drug-target evidence, turning messy biological knowledge into actionable decision frameworks for teams and programs.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at University of PortlandDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Oregon Health and Science University
Github Skills (2)
biodata6
project-management2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ablucher/Workshop_ReproduciblePaper
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:79 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
ablucher/The-Cancer-Targetome
Nov 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:175 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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