Eliah Overbey
Assistant Professor Of Bioastronautics at Weill Cornell Medicine
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEliah Overbey is an Assistant Professor of Bioastronautics and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience at the intersection of genomics, computational biomedicine, and spaceflight medicine. He leads astronautical molecular projects and biobanking initiatives (SOMA, CAMbank) and co-founded startups shaping off-planet healthcare (BioAstra, medAstra). His work spans hands-on multiomics for commercial missions, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics in spaceflight, and building a lab and program to prepare humans for Mars. Trained as a PhD genomicist with a computer science BS, he combines algorithmic rigor with wet-lab expertise to design experiments that work in microgravity. Based in Austin, he blends academic leadership with product-focused science, routinely translating complex space biology into operational tools and biobanks. An understated strength is his history of teaching and curriculum development, which he leverages to grow teams and scale astronaut training programs.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Genome Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Genome Sciences at University of WashingtonUniversity of California San Diego
Github Skills (16)
gene-expression10
bioinformatics8
machine-learning6
data-science5
rna-seq4
python4
transcriptomics3
genomics3
sequencing3
raspberry1
clock1
strip1
raspberry-pi1
matlab1
hierarchical1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eliah-o/Quantitative-Reasoning-II
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
eliah-o/GeneLab-Analysis
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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