Colin Fischer
Doctoral Candidate
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolColin Fischer is a doctoral candidate and translational cancer researcher with 12 years of laboratory and field experience focused on developing genetically engineered, induced pluripotent stem cell-derived NK cell therapies for blood cancers. He blends deep bench skills—complex tissue culture, genetic engineering, sequencing, and data science—with translational aims to create safer, off-the-shelf alternatives to chemotherapy and donor-derived products. His background spans mechanistic studies of drug resistance, CAR-T/BiTE engineering, and frontline genomics work during the COVID-19 pandemic, giving him a rare mix of therapeutic development and high-throughput diagnostics experience. Colin has also worked in ocean biogeochemistry, an unusual cross-disciplinary chapter that honed his experimental design and large-scale fieldwork capabilities. Based in Vienna and trained at UCL and the University of Minnesota, he emphasizes collaborative, ethically minded science and seeks to lower economic and geopolitical barriers to global research collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Biology, Bachelor's of Science Biology at University of Minnesota DuluthMedical University of ViennaUniversity College London
Italian
Github Skills (47)
moodle10
learning-management-system10
elearning10
open-source10
lms10
mhealth10
geocoding10
portal10
edtech10
usability10
geofencing9
geodata9
geofence9
jasperreports8
web-application7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
colin-umn/moodle
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:38 pushes, 23 branches in 11 months
colin-umn/trynetlifycms
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
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