Octavio Palacios
Senior Scientist, Computational Oncology
Spain
Summary
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SeniorOctavio Palacios is a Senior Scientist in Computational Oncology with nine years of experience translating multi-omics and clinical data into actionable insights for immunotherapy development. At AstraZeneca he leads analysis of internal trials and real-world data, builds R/Shiny tools for multimodal visualization, and integrates LLM-driven workflows to accelerate translational decision-making. His background as a PhD researcher in epigenetics and immunology informs deep expertise in bulk and single-cell RNA-seq, DNA methylation, and bioinformatics package development. Proven in client-facing roles at Clarivate, he combines hands-on coding (R, Bioconductor, Bash, Shiny) with project leadership to deliver reproducible data packages supporting clinical programs. Based in Spain, he brings a rare blend of wet-lab immunology experience and production-ready computational tooling that bridges research and clinical translation.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
shiny9
genomics9
bioinformatics9
illumina9
pipeline8
genome-analysis5
bioconductor4
seq3
next-generation-sequencing3
chip-seq3
iot1
realtek1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
omorante/shinyepico
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
shinyÉPICo is a graphical and interactive pipeline to analyze Illumina DNA Methylation Arrays and to find Differentially Methylated CpGs
Contributions:219 commits, 27 PRs, 154 pushes in 2 years 8 months
pipelinednadna-methylationilluminashiny
omorante/mubeen
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 month
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