Christopher Butch
Associate Professor
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Butch is an associate professor at Nanjing University who leads a translational bioengineering group combining computational design, kinetic optimization, and hands-on experiments to advance therapeutics and diagnostics toward clinical impact. With 11 years of experience spanning a PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and postdoctoral work at Emory and Tokyo Tech, he focuses on the cancer–immune interface using structure-based modeling and machine learning to overcome immune evasion and improve checkpoint outcomes. His lab has advanced real-world candidates—such as NY-07, a folate receptor α–selective imaging agent now in Phase II, and ACT-vac, a rapid-turnaround personalized vaccine platform—illustrating a rare end-to-end pipeline from in silico design to clinical translation. Based in Hong Kong, he blends fundamental physical chemistry and systems-level engineering to optimize molecules, delivery, and treatment timing, often shrinking production timelines from weeks to days.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of South Carolina-ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (22)
java8
feature-extraction8
vscode7
docker7
jsonpath6
extraction6
apache-camel6
dtw6
kubernetes6
json-data6
apache5
json5
json-parser4
data-science4
time-series4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cristph/Dessert
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
MATCH-US/MatchUsWebsite
Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:110 pushes in 1 year
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