Kristina Grigaityte
Associate Director, Translational Research
Town of Huntington, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKristina Grigaityte is an Associate Director in Translational Research with over eight years of hands-on experience translating complex genomic and single-cell datasets into actionable insights for drug discovery and clinical programs. Trained as a neuroscientist and now a computational immunologist with a PhD from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, she combines rigorous Bayesian and MCMC-based statistical methods with practical engineering to build production-ready RNAseq and TCR repertoire pipelines. She has led platform selection and developed self-serve ingestion and QC pipelines that reduced data processing time from days to hours and enabled scalable analysis across teams. Her work spans Tempus, Prometheus (acquired by Merck), and Merck, where she bridged research and industry needs to prioritize targets and validate indications. Notably, she developed the BayesPowerlaw package and identified mixtures of power laws in T cell clone sizes—an insight that informed downstream repertoire analyses. Based in Huntington, NY, she blends deep academic technique with product-focused delivery to accelerate translational impact.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Sculpture, Sculpture at Klaipėda Adomas Brakas School of ArtsBachelor of Science (BSc) Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Neuroscience at The University of EdinburghKlaipėda "Ąžuolynas" gymnasiumDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology at Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
javascript9
open-source9
python5
quote5
zap5
linux3
simulation2
immunology2
sequencing1
infer1
genomics1
inference1
bioinformatics1
igor1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AtwalLab/TCRrepertoire-Manuscript
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:83 commits, 6 pushes in 3 months
AtwalLab/BayesPowerlaw
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 26 pushes in 8 months
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