Christopher Rice
Assistant Professor at Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine & Veterinary Hospital
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Rice is an Assistant Professor and trained microbiologist with over a decade focused on pathogenic free-living amoebae, translating deep organismal biochemistry into drug discovery and diagnostic tools. He designs and implements HTS colorimetric, luminescent, and high-content imaging assays to identify trophocidal and cysticidal small molecules against Acanthamoeba, Balamuthia, and Naegleria, and has led center-level drug discovery efforts. His work spans academic roles from postdoctoral assay development to managing a university drug discovery center and now faculty-led therapeutic development at Purdue. Known for tackling orphan, high-mortality infections, he combines practical assay engineering with an eye for moving leads toward clinical relevance — including novel diagnostics for fast identification of pFLA.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Parasitology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Parasitology at University of the West of Scotland
English
Github Skills (66)
python10
modular10
discord-js10
youtube10
music10
chatbot10
cli10
retrieval10
ffmpeg10
discord10
discord-bot10
discord-py10
youtube-dl9
redbot9
transactional8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Aioxas/ax-cogs
Jul 2016 - Jul 2022
Search, retrieval, and random utility cogs for Red Discord Bot.
Contributions:2 reviews, 204 commits, 62 PRs in 6 years
discordbotdiscord-botdiscord-pyretrieval
Aioxas/Red-DiscordBot
Jul 2016 - Oct 2018
A multifunction Discord bot
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 2 months
discordbotdiscord-jsdiscord-bot
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