Scott Kennedy
Associate Professor
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Kennedy is an Associate Professor and molecular sequencing innovator with 11 years of faculty experience at the University of Washington and a PhD in Chemistry/Biophysics from UNC Chapel Hill. He is a primary developer of Duplex Sequencing, a technique that improves next-generation sequencing accuracy by over 10,000-fold, and he applies it to study somatic mutation accumulation in aging, neurodegeneration, and mitochondrial quality control. In addition to academic leadership, he consults for TwinStrand Biosciences to translate high-accuracy sequencing into forensic and applied genotyping workflows. Based in Seattle, he combines deep wet-lab expertise with technology development, bridging basic research and practical protocols that enable ultra-sensitive mutation detection.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Chemistry/Biophysics, PhD, Chemistry/Biophysics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (25)
prediction10
duplex9
espn9
regression-models8
forecasting8
statsmodels8
statistics8
econometrics8
hypothesis-testing8
snakemake7
bioinformatics7
sequencing7
modeling7
python7
data-analysis6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Kennedy-Lab-UW/Duplex-Sequencing
Apr 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:62 commits, 31 PRs, 58 pushes in 5 years
Kennedy-Lab-UW/Sanchez_Contreras_etal_2022
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:11 pushes in 6 months
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