Kyle Nishikawa
Senior Scientist at Gilead Sciences
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Nishikawa is a Senior Scientist at Gilead Sciences with eight years of experience at the intersection of protein engineering and computational biology. He develops computational tools to accelerate affinity maturation and improve therapeutic developability, building on a PhD from UW–Madison where he designed and experimentally screened allosteric transcription factors. His background spans mass spectrometry, flow cytometry, and FACS, giving him practical insight into preclinical workflows as well as in silico design using Rosetta and Python. Comfortable moving designs from code to bench, he combines evolutionary perspectives on novel protein functions with hands-on assay development. Based in Houston, he brings the rigor of academic research to pragmatic drug-development challenges in industry.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor's degree, Biochemistry, Bachelor's degree, Biochemistry at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (17)
r-package9
app-links9
shiny7
meta-analysis7
stan6
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rstan5
bootstrapping5
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bayesian-data-analysis5
bayesian-statistics4
reproducible-research4
knitr4
mcmc4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BioPharmSoftGrp/PREP
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
This project is package in R used to created a Shiny app with a default template and also creates a R package project that the Shiny app links to. View the package website at https://biopharmsoftgrp.github.io/PREP/
Contributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 92 commits in 11 months
r-packageshiny-appshinyrstatsapp-links
kwathen/OCTOPUS
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 44 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years 9 months
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