Sungsam Gong
Senior Research Associate In Bioinformaitcs
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSungsam Gong is a senior research associate in bioinformatics with 14 years' experience applying high-throughput genome sequencing to clinical problems, currently funded by the NIHR to identify blood-based biomarkers for fetal growth restriction and pre-eclampsia. He previously led bioinformatics for molecular diagnostics at the NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, translating personal genome data into diagnostic pipelines for inherited heart disease. His PhD from the University of Cambridge focused on structural and functional constraints of amino acid substitutions, giving him deep expertise in variant interpretation across evolution and disease. Based in Cambridge, he bridges rigorous academic research and translational clinical genomics, with a track record of moving methods from discovery into diagnostics. An understated strength is his ability to fuse protein-structure insight with large-scale sequencing analysis to prioritize clinically relevant variants.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics at University of CambridgeMaster of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (24)
genes9
r-package8
seq7
rna-seq6
frame6
cran6
r6
bioinformatics5
genomics5
python-bindings5
sequencing5
shiny5
transcript4
assembly3
browser3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sung/ShinyPlacentome
May 2019 - Mar 2021
A Shiny App to browser differential expressed genes in the human placenta
Contributions:2 releases, 78 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 10 months
browsershiny-appshinygenesdifferential
sung/POPS-Placenta-Transcriptome-2020
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year
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