Carlos Talavera-lópez
Director Target Discovery Sciences at GSK
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolCarlos Talavera-López is a clinician-turned-computational biologist with a decade of experience translating single-cell and spatial multi-omics into target discovery and translational insights across academia and industry. Currently Director of Target Discovery Sciences at GSK, he leads integrative, spatially-resolved multi-omics programs that pair generative and agentic AI to characterize disease mechanisms and nominate novel targets. His career spans leading roles at premier institutions (Wellcome Sanger, EMBL-EBI, Max Planck, Helmholtz) where he built FAIR cloud pipelines, atlases of human tissues, and graph-learning methods to study cellular collectives. He has a unique combination of front-line clinical training in Nicaragua and deep technical PhD expertise from Karolinska that informs pragmatic biomarker and trial innovations, including adaptive AI-driven clinical trials for tuberculosis. Colleagues value him for bridging rigorous computational method development with actionable translational impact across global, multi-site consortia.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Clinical Analyst, Medicine, Clinical Analyst, Medicine at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua UNAN-LeónDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Biology at Karolinska institutet
Spanish, English, German, Swedish
Github Skills (115)
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transcriptomics10
variational-autoencoder10
autoencoder10
single-cell-analysis10
scanpy10
single-cell-genomics10
hierarchical10
tsne10
bioinformatics10
cran10
galaxy9
rna-seq9
topological-data-analysis9
python9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
theislab/expiMap_reproducibility
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:60 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cartal/HCA_Heart
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:38 commits, 19 pushes, 5 comments in 7 months
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