Summary
Scott Presnell is a scientific consultant and practicing bioinformatician with over 25 years of experience applying computational and statistical methods to immunology, protein therapeutics, and large-scale sequencing data. As co-leader of the Presnell & Altman Laboratory at Benaroya Research Institute, he has led NIH-funded projects in asthma, allergy, and COVID-19 and overseen teams delivering single-cell and bulk RNA-seq analyses, TCR clonotype tracking, and trajectory modeling. He combines deep expertise in protein structure, antibody modeling and directed evolution with hands-on data engineering for next-generation sequencing workflows. Scott has contributed to patent families for more than a dozen novel proteins and guided multidisciplinary teams of bioinformaticians and programmers to translate discovery into therapeutics. He also runs The Presnell Group, LLC, tackling complex data management and modeling problems for research programs. Based in Tacoma, WA, he pairs rigorous academic training (PhD Harvard) with practical leadership that bridges basic research and translational impact.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Chemistry, Ph.D., Chemistry at Harvard University
Traveling Scholar, Chemistry, Traveling Scholar, Chemistry at ETH Zürich
Post Doc., Biochemistry (Dept. Pharmaceutical Chemistry), Post Doc., Biochemistry (Dept. Pharmaceutical Chemistry) at University of California, San Francisco
B.S., Chemistry, B.S., Chemistry at Stanford University