Hani Goodarzi
Venture Partner at University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolHani Goodarzi is a cancer systems biologist and machine learning researcher with 11 years of interdisciplinary experience translating biological insight into computational models of tumor progression and metastasis. Based in San Francisco, he balances academic leadership as an associate professor at UCSF and core investigator at the Arc Institute with active venture and entrepreneurial roles as a venture partner at Amplify Partners and co-founder of multiple biotech startups. His work focuses on biology-inspired ML that captures human disease dynamics, leveraging both computational genomics and hands-on experimental expertise from his Princeton PhD and postdoctoral training. He advises and helps build ventures at the intersection of AI and therapeutics, bringing scientific rigor to product and company strategy. Notably, he moves fluidly between deep mechanistic studies and translational applications, founding companies while maintaining an active research lab. This dual-track career gives him a rare perspective on how mechanistic models can drive real-world drug discovery and clinical translation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Biotechnology, B.Sc., Biotechnology at University of TehranPhD, Molecular Biology, PhD, Molecular Biology at Princeton University
English, Persian, French
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Github Skills (15)
bioinformatics6
genomics6
analytical6
pipeline5
poly3
r-package2
python2
rna-seq2
seq2
data-manipulation1
data-profiling1
regression1
exploratory-data-analysis1
profiling1
data-analysis1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
goodarzilab/iAnalyzer
Jul 2019 - Apr 2022
An analytical pipeline for powered analysis of CRISPR screens
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
crisprpipelinegenomicsbioinformaticsanalytical
goodarzilab/goodarzilab.github.io
May 2016 - Jul 2024
Lab website
Contributions:17 PRs, 293 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
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