Renee Salz
Data Scientist
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRenee Salz is a data scientist and final-year bioinformatics PhD bringing nine years of cross-disciplinary experience in NGS, proteomics, and personalized medicine. She developed a containerized Nextflow pipeline for rare disease diagnostics and has driven bioinformatics efforts at ProQR to accelerate therapeutic oligonucleotide development using high-throughput screening and generative AI. A published author and award-winning international speaker, she has led FAIR data initiatives and implemented ELN protocols to standardize and make assay data reusable. Renee pairs hands-on pipeline and model development with experimental design, having directed numerous bulk RNA-seq studies and built sequence/structure-based prediction tools. Now based in Leiden, she is seeking EU/UK roles to deepen her machine learning expertise and translate multi-omic insights into diagnostic and therapeutic impact.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioinformatics at Radboud UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics at KU LeuvenDiploma, Diploma at La Jolla High SchoolMaastricht University
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (61)
encryption10
decryption9
ssl9
cryptography9
openssl9
gff9
rna-seq9
predictor9
genomics8
python-bindings8
crypto8
transcriptomics8
bioinformatics8
structural-variation7
mass-spectrometry7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cmbi/SUsPECT
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
Variant effect prediction based on custom long-read transcriptomes
Contributions:134 commits, 7 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year
longpredictionvariant-effect-prediction
cmbi/NA12878-saav-detection
Sep 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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