Florent Petitprez
Post-doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFlorent Petitprez is a postdoctoral researcher in computational immuno-oncology based in Edinburgh, combining eight years of research experience to unravel how immune-cancer interactions inform personalized therapy. He applies bioinformatics and systems biology across pan-cancer classification, prognostic and theranostic modeling, and has translated metabolomics and gene-regulatory network inference into applied research during industry and academic internships. Trained at École Polytechnique and AgroParisTech, he blends rigorous theoretical grounding from French prépas with hands-on modeling work from international placements including New Zealand. His trajectory spans academic, clinical-affiliated research and industry R&D, reflecting an ability to move from mechanistic models to clinically relevant biomarkers. Colleagues value his interdisciplinary fluency—bridging computational methods, immunology, and translational oncology—to help define the best treatment for each patient. Beyond publications, he brings a pattern-recognition mindset to complex biological data that often reveals non-obvious patient stratification signals.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Classes préparatoires MPSI - MP* - MP*, Classes préparatoires MPSI - MP* - MP* at Lycée FaidherbeBioinformatique, Bioinformatique at Ecole polytechniqueIngénieur Agronome, Biotechnologies, Ingénieur Agronome, Biotechnologies at AgroParisTech - Institut des sciences et industries du vivant et de l'environnement
French, English, German
Github Skills (27)
estimate10
variational-autoencoder9
counter9
heterogeneous8
tsne8
single-cell-analysis8
autoencoder8
bioinformatics8
hierarchical8
composition7
single-cell-genomics7
topological-data-analysis7
density-estimation7
probabilistic6
spatial-transcriptomics6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FPetitprez/webMCP-counter
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 29 pushes in 2 years 2 months
cit-bioinfo/mMCP-counter
Aug 2019 - Jun 2022
Murine version of MCP-counter, a tool to estimate the immune and stromal composition of heterogeneous tissue, from transcriptomic data
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 11 months
compositionheterogeneousmcptissuebioinformatics
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