Basheer Becerra
Doctoral Researcher at Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBasheer Becerra is a Harvard Medical School doctoral researcher with 11 years of experience at the intersection of bioinformatics, experimental genomics, and software engineering. He builds reproducible Python and web-based tools and established a nucleotide-resolution CRISPR variant-to-function framework (Nature Communications 2026) while co-leading experimental screens that have yielded base/prime-editing targets for sickle-cell disease now progressing toward IP/IND. His work blends high-throughput wet-lab assays (in-situ base/prime-editing, MPRA) with predictive in-silico models to map regulatory mechanisms and prioritize therapeutic strategies. Prior roles include engineering a biophysically interpretable SELEX-seq portal at Columbia and production-grade analytics systems in industry, demonstrating fluency across Spring Boot/Java, TypeScript/Angular, AWS, and genomics tooling. Notably, he has shipped open-source Python tools from the Pinello lab and brings a rare combination of hands-on bench experience and scalable software delivery. Based in Cambridge, MA, he is pursuing translational genomics solutions with an eye toward clinical development.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical Informatics at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Statistics at Illinois State University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
muse9
genes9
bioinformatics7
awt6
double6
audio6
arraylist6
binding6
machine-learning6
python6
twitter-api6
algorithm6
c-preprocessor6
applet6
twitter5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CodingBash/CNV-Clinical-Preprocessing
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:137 commits, 64 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
CodingBash/twitter-bot
Dec 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 46 commits, 42 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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