Haitham Ashoor
Principal Scientist at Takeda
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHaitham Ashoor is a Principal Scientist based in Greater Boston with eight years of industry experience applying computational methods and AI across drug discovery, target identification, and patient stratification. He combines a PhD in bioinformatics with hands-on roles at Takeda, Janssen, Merck and The Jackson Laboratory, driving data-driven decisions from genomics to translational pipelines. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, Haitham’s early research built ChIP-seq analysis methods and knowledge bases—skills he now leverages to translate complex genomic signals into actionable therapeutic insights. Known for moving methods into production environments, he blends deep computational biology expertise with practical engineering experience across pharmaceutical R&D.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology), PhD Computer Science (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) at King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyBSc Computer Engineering, BSc Computer Engineering at University of Jordan
Arabic, English
Github Skills (13)
bioinformatics6
genomics6
cran6
single-cell-genomics4
publish3
shiny3
react3
jupyter2
nodejs2
typescript2
javascript2
rmarkdown2
plumber1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LabShengLi/sci
Dec 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
BoevaLab/HMCan
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 2 years
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