Petri Pölönen
Postdoctoral Researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolPetri Pölönen is a postdoctoral researcher and bioinformatics specialist with eight years of experience applying computational systems biology to hematology, cancer genomics and immunogenomics. Based at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, he led the whole-genome, transcriptome and exome analysis of over 1,300 T-ALL cases reported in Nature 2024 and has six first-author papers among 28 publications (H-index 17). He combines professional R programming, Unix/Linux HPC and Git expertise with deep experience in multi-omic cohort analysis and validation of coding and non-coding alterations. Petri’s work bridges rigorous computational method development and translational cancer discovery, and he has a strong track record of international collaboration from visits to institutes like Karolinska and ISB. An early educator in bioinformatics, he has also taught and organized training programs, reflecting a talent for communicating complex genomic analyses to diverse audiences.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Medicine at University of Eastern FinlandSystems biology (55 ECTS), Systems biology (55 ECTS) at University of Luxembourg
English, Swedish, Finnish
Github Skills (3)
bedtools1
wrapping1
r-package1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ppolonen/genomic_basis_TALL
Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
ppolonen/ImmunogenomicLandscape-BloodCancer
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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