Gregorio Iraola
Chief Executive Officer at Kinzbio
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Top SchoolGregorio Iraola is a scientist-turned-founder with over a decade of experience translating microbial ecology and genomics into real-world health solutions, currently leading Kinzbio as CEO to deliver the first personalized phage therapy platform in Latin America. He combines deep computational biology training (PhD, MSc) with hands-on leadership of national genomic surveillance efforts and the Latinbiota continental consortium, bridging academic discovery and scalable diagnostics/therapeutics. Gregorio has led multidisciplinary teams at top institutions like the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Institut Pasteur, pioneering nanopore certification and COVID-19 genomics in Uruguay. His work uniquely pairs machine learning-driven insights into microbiome biomarkers with product-focused development, turning complex sequencing pipelines into clinical and commercial services.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. in Biology, Computational Microbiology, Ph.D. in Biology, Computational Microbiology at Universidad de la República
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
genomes9
open-access8
journal8
academia7
genomics7
bioinformatics7
creative-commons6
phylogeny4
database2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
giraola/taxxo
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:263 pushes, 1 branch, 5 comments in 8 months
giraola/trgryns
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:140 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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