Dries De Maeyer
Senior Principal Scientist at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolDries De Maeyer is a Senior Principal Scientist with nine years of experience at Janssen, where he leads development and deployment of scalable single-cell analysis pipelines that bridge novel technologies, clinical studies, and drug discovery. Trained as a bio-engineer with an additional degree in informatics and a PhD in computational biology, he combines algorithm development, distributed computing, and practical pipeline engineering to move single-cell methods from benchmarking to clinical scale. His work spans technology evaluation, cross-therapeutic-data integration, and uncovering molecular biology to guide novel therapeutics. Notably, he blends academic algorithmic rigor—from mining interactomics and visualizing high-dimensional networks—with enterprise-grade software practices to deliver reproducible, high-throughput sequencing workflows. Based in the Antwerp region, he brings a rare mix of wet-lab-informed biological insight and production-focused computational leadership.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Bio-engineering Biotechnology, Master in Bio-engineering Biotechnology at KU LeuvenSecondary school Science and mathematics, Secondary school Science and mathematics at Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege
Dutch, French, English
Github Skills (51)
transcriptomics8
jupyterlab8
bioinformatics8
toolbox7
jupyter7
jupyterlab-extension7
api7
parquet7
genomics7
jupyter-widget6
gwas6
adam6
single-cell-analysis6
scanpy6
java6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ddemaeyer/ScopeInDocker
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 11 days
ddemaeyer/ViFi
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Pipeline for identifying viral integration and fusion mRNA reads from NGS data. Manuscript is currently in preparation.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
preparationpipelineviralngsfusion
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