Philip Jonsson
Senior Director at Eli Lilly and Company
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Jonsson is a senior life-sciences leader with 11 years of experience translating computational biology and molecular research into drug discovery programs, now serving as Senior Director at Eli Lilly. His career spans high-impact roles at Lilly/ Loxo Oncology, Scorpion Therapeutics, Celsius Therapeutics, and Memorial Sloan Kettering, blending hands-on computational biology with people leadership and program delivery. He holds a Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology and a cross-disciplinary academic background from KTH, Virginia Tech and Stockholm University, reflecting both deep wet-lab training and quantitative insight. Known for navigating transitions between academia and industry, he brings a pragmatic mix of scientific rigor and operational focus to advance therapeutic pipelines. An international profile and varied training suggest strong adaptability and an ability to connect diverse teams across discovery and development.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange studies, Exchange studies at Tecnológico de MonterreyLaboratory training Molecular microbiology, Laboratory training Molecular microbiology at Virginia TechM.Sc. Biotechnology, M.Sc. Biotechnology at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cell and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cell and Molecular Biology at University of HoustonMacro and micro economics, Macro and micro economics at Stockholm University
English, Swedish, Spanish
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Github Skills (69)
vep10
maf10
facets10
singularity9
reproducible-science9
nextflow9
genomics9
reproducible-research9
bioinformatics9
pipeline8
summarize8
perl8
cancer-genomics8
slurm8
dataflow8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
taylor-lab/annotateMaf
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Add functional variant annotation to MAF file
Contributions:2 releases, 34 commits, 29 pushes in 7 months
variant-annotationmafbioinformaticsmutationsannotation
kpjonsson/.dotfiles
Oct 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
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