Jason Weirather
Director Of Computational Biology
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJason Weirather is a Director of Computational Biology with 11 years of experience building reproducible, explainable analysis pipelines for high-plex imaging and multi-modal immuno-oncology data. He has led development and institutional adoption of an mIF image analysis pipeline used for sample-level summaries and spatial analyses, and contributed to CIMAC-CIDC efforts standardizing analyses across mIF, IHC, RNA-seq, WES, CyTOF, and Olink. Comfortable bridging clinicians, pathologists, and bioinformaticians, he focuses on translating complex immune biology into actionable biomarkers and mechanistic insights for immunotherapy. His background spans PhD-trained genetics research on long-read sequencing and practical engineering of QC and analysis tools, reflecting a blend of rigorous method development and production-grade pipeline engineering. Based in Boston, he now advances high-plex imaging analytics in industry while retaining deep ties to academic trial networks.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at Iowa State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics at University of Iowa
Github Skills (57)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dfci/pythologist
Apr 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 62 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 7 months
jason-weirather/AlignQC
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 122 commits, 130 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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