Max Gerashchenko
Principal Scientist (Discovery Team Lead) at ProFound Therapeutics
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMax Gerashchenko is a Principal Scientist and discovery team lead based in Boston with nine years of industry and academic experience at the intersection of biochemistry, translation regulation, and aging biology. He progressed from postdoctoral research and instructorship at Harvard Medical School—where he specialized in ribosome profiling and the molecular control of protein synthesis—to senior and now leadership roles at ProFound Therapeutics driving target discovery. His work blends deep mechanistic expertise with hands-on experimental leadership, translating insights from basic research into therapeutic discovery pipelines. Trained at Lomonosov MSU and holding a PhD from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he combines rigorous academic pedigree with biotech execution. Notably, his scholarly profile shows sustained contributions to understanding how protein expression and translation dynamics influence aging, an angle he leverages to inform target selection and program strategy.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry at University of Nebraska-LincolnLomonosov Moscow State University
Github Skills (12)
seq7
bioinformatics6
rna-seq6
genomics5
fasta4
bioconda4
sequencing4
sequence4
adapter4
python3
mapper3
memory-efficient1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
germaximus/Greer_2021
Mar 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 10 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 5 months
germaximus/OConnell_2018
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:59 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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