Summary
Qirui Hu is an interdisciplinary development leader blending eight years of experience across web engineering and stem cell biotherapeutics, currently serving as Associate Director of Development in Santa Barbara. He pairs hands-on React/TypeScript front-end skills and modern CI/CD toolchains with deep expertise in iPSC/iNSC biology, having led multiple preclinical cell therapy programs for Parkinson’s, epilepsy, and AMD under cGMP-like conditions. Qirui has built scalable differentiation and QC pipelines, developed monoclonal antibody enrichment and MACS protocols, and overseen in vivo efficacy studies—while also shipping production web interfaces and contributing to open-source code (GitHub Arctic Code Vault). Comfortable moving between lab bench and codebase, he is studying deep learning and explores quantum computing and machine learning in side projects. Notably, he has successfully translated molecular biology insights (miRNA, reprogramming) into practical protocols and industry-scale cell banking.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M. S., Molecular Genetics, M. S., Molecular Genetics at Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Genetics
B.S., Biotechnology, B.S., Biotechnology at Sichuan University
Ph. D., Biomedical Science, Ph. D., Biomedical Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa
English, Chinese