Matthew Forrest
Lead Scientist at Biocrucible
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Forrest is a Lead Scientist with over 15 years' hands-on experience developing ISO13485-compliant isothermal point-of-care molecular diagnostics and platforms. He played a key role at TwistDx in commercialising Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA), leading the award-winning TwistAmp Liquid product and contributing to the Alere-i (Abbott ID NOW) CLIA-waived platform. Matthew combines deep assay development and productisation expertise with cross-functional leadership—bridging R&D, manufacturing, QC and commercial teams—to move assays from concept to market. His work spans diverse targets (C. difficile, MRSA, TB, RSV and sexually transmitted infections) and includes practical field-focused design informed by running Wellcome Trust workshops in low-resource settings. Based in Cambridge, he brings 21 years of life-sciences experience and a research pedigree from Berkeley and the Sanger Institute, applying academic rigor to pragmatic diagnostic solutions. Colleagues describe him as a persistent problem-solver who intentionally designs affordable, workable diagnostics for resource-limited environments.
21 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons), Genetics, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons), Genetics, 2:1 at University of YorkNorwich SchoolPhD, Molecular Genetics of Prostate Cancer, PhD, Molecular Genetics of Prostate Cancer at Imperial Cancer Research Fund, St James's Hospital, Leeds
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Github Skills (173)
metadata10
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rust10
rust-lang9
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ecmascript9
data-management9
rust-language9
eslint-config9
standard-library9
genome-annotation9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mcast/perlunit
Nov 2007 - Apr 2021
Contributions:65 commits, 2 branches in 13 years 7 months
Ensembl/cvs2git-wrap
May 2009 - Sep 2013
Contributions:102 commits in 4 years 5 months
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