Dennis Simpson
Senior Scientist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDennis Simpson is a Senior Scientist and research leader with 11+ years driving cell biology, DNA repair, and molecular biology programs at UNC Chapel Hill, where he mentors teams and oversees complex, high-risk projects. He has authored 30+ publications and holds five patents licensed to Alphavax, translating deep mechanistic insight into tangible biomedical outcomes. His recent work elucidates Mre11 signaling and Polymerase Theta (PolQ) roles in cell-cycle–dependent DNA repair and tumor dependency, guiding target discovery and small-molecule inhibitor studies. Comfortable spanning bench to bioinformatics, he has built end-to-end pipelines from cell assays to computational analysis and managed multi-hundred-thousand-dollar research budgets. Colleagues rely on him for experimental design, regulatory compliance, and turning exploratory science into clinically relevant programs.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Microbiology and Public Health, B.S., Microbiology and Public Health at Michigan State UniversityPhD, Virology, PhD, Virology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (45)
biology9
robotics9
sequence-alignment9
phylogenetics9
bioinformatics9
science9
protocols9
genomics9
protein-structure8
codeigniter8
authentication8
jwt8
synthetic8
cvs8
structural-variation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Gaorav-Gupta-Lab/Opentrons_Programs
Dec 2020 - Feb 2025
Opentrons OT-2 Programs
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 103 pushes in 4 years 2 months
opentronsprogramsot-2
ModelAnnotation/model
Mar 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 8 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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