Lasse Folkersen
Chief Scientific Officer at Nucleus
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLasse Folkersen is Chief Scientific Officer at Nucleus with 16 years of experience applying high-throughput -omics and GWAS to translate genomic discoveries into clinically actionable insights. His career spans academia, industry, and national infrastructure—helping implement national sequencing standards, develop polygenic risk scores for clinical use, and integrate GWAS into drug discovery at Novo Nordisk and Lundbeck. He has authored over 134 peer-reviewed papers (H-index 55), two Bioconductor packages, four NF-core modules, and holds two patents, reflecting a rare blend of hands-on computational tool development and translational impact. A published popular science author, he also focuses on user-facing platforms that bring genetic interpretation to people and clinicians. Based in New York, he leads Nucleus’s effort to reimagine consumer genetic testing by turning complex omics data into practical public-health tools. An early participant in GWAS research since 2009, he consistently pushes methods from proof-of-concept to real-world implementation.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cardiovascular Genomics and Transcriptomics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cardiovascular Genomics and Transcriptomics at Karolinska InstitutetMaster Human biology, Master Human biology at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
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Github Skills (78)
variants10
immunology10
genomics10
nf-core10
reproducible-science10
next-generation-sequencing10
singularity10
imputation10
nextflow10
pipeline10
rna-seq10
genome10
frontier10
economy10
conda10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lassefolkersen/impute-me
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
This is the code behind the www.impute.me site. It contains algorithms for personal genome analysis, including imputation and polygenic risk score calculation
Contributions:18 releases, 1 review, 2 commits in 1 day
calculationimputationgenomecode-behindgenetics
lassefolkersen/self-hacks
Dec 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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