Curt Fischer
Senior Director at Decade Bio
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurt Fischer is a biochemical engineer and synthetic biologist with 11 years of industry experience leading metabolomics and metabolic engineering teams across academia and biotech. Currently a Senior Director at Decade Bio in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has a track record of translating mass spectrometry and high-throughput biochemical data into actionable insights, having led a $6.7M federally funded project at Ginkgo and headed Stanford’s Metabolic Chemistry Analysis Center. His background blends deep analytical chemistry, isotope-based microbial ecology from a UC Berkeley postdoc, and hands-on strain engineering from MIT graduate work, enabling him to bridge wet lab R&D with computational analysis (including Python tools for large MS imaging datasets). An entrepreneur and advisor, he founded a bioenergy startup and has consulted for institutions like Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and Hexagon Bio, bringing both strategic vision and operational experience. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who makes complex metabolomics accessible to cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM.E. Bioengineering, M.E. Bioengineering at Tokyo Institute of TechnologyB.S. Chemical Engineering, B.S. Chemical Engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityWHHHS
English, Japanese
Github Skills (91)
python10
ms-data10
mass-spectrometry10
cheminformatics10
rdkit10
linux9
windows9
bioconductor9
peak-detection9
openms9
numba8
numerics8
gradient-descent8
convolution8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Stanford-ChEMH-MCAC/protocols
Jan 2017 - Mar 2025
Laboratory protocols used by the Metabolite Chemistry Analysis Center, a ChEM-H Knowledge Center at Stanford University.
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch, 14 comments in 8 years 3 months
centerstanfordchemistrystanford-universityknowledge
Stanford-ChEMH-MCAC/parse_agilent
Jan 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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