Juan Rodriguez-flores
Founder at Juansearch LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Rodriguez-flores is a genomics-focused founder and senior research leader with over a decade of experience translating population-scale genetic discoveries into translational and therapeutic strategies. Trained at MIT and with a PhD in Bioinformatics from UC San Diego, he has led multidisciplinary teams at Regeneron and Weill Cornell to develop AI/ML methods for variant prioritization, disease-risk modeling, and genotype-first study design across diverse global cohorts. His work spans human evolution, disease risk, and genomic medicine, including building population-specific resources (e.g., Arab and Qatari reference datasets) and a human knockout catalog used in multi-pharma collaborations. He combines hands-on computational method development with experimental validation and clinical study design, and has a track record of mentoring students and steering international collaborations. Now leading Juansearch LLC, he consults on manuscripts, grants, and strategy for academic and industry scientists, leveraging 16+ years of research and product experience. A Puerto Rico native, he uniquely blends ancestry-informed population genetics with practical pipelines for precision medicine.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at St Johns School, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Spanish, French
Github Skills (24)
seq8
sequencing7
rna-seq7
python-bindings6
bam6
bioconda5
sequence5
bioinformatics5
fasta5
genomics5
java4
genome4
throughput4
fastq4
java-api4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
juansearch/callMom
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
juansearch/_WAS
Apr 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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