Fong Chan
Senior Principal Bioinformatics Scientist
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolFong Chan is a senior principal bioinformatics scientist with 11 years of experience translating cancer genomics research into production-grade NGS algorithms and pipelines across academia and industry. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from UBC and has led teams at Achilles Therapeutics and Roche to develop scalable, validated workflows for clonal neoantigen discovery, tumor evolution tracing, and multi-omic integration. Comfortable across HPC and cloud environments, he combines statistical rigor, software engineering best practices (Docker, Nextflow, CI, unit testing) and practical immunogenomics to deliver reproducible clinical-grade analyses. He has a track record of technology transfer—from TRACERx academic pipelines to industry deployments—and mentorship of junior scientists alongside hands-on pipeline benchmarking with synthetic tumor simulations. Notably, his work emphasizes principled statistical methods for bespoke algorithm development where off-the-shelf tools fall short.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science (BSc), Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bioinformatics at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (198)
cox-regression10
markdown10
tiddlywiki10
upsetr10
survival-analysis10
self-contained10
r9
quarto9
javascript9
linux9
lambda9
site-generator9
notepad9
snakemake9
ruby9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
LCR-BCCRC/CHL26predictor
Jul 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
tinyheero/survutils
Jul 2015 - Jul 2018
Survival analysis utility functions using functional programming principals
Contributions:3 releases, 142 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years
utility-functionssurvival-analysissurvivalfunctional-programmingcox-regression
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