Taku Murakami
Senior Medical Science Liaison at Guardant Health Japan
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaku Murakami is a senior medical science liaison and molecular diagnostics leader with 14 years of experience and a 20-year track record as a project leader and independent researcher in assay and marker development. He has led 15+ marker discovery projects, commercialized multiple RUO platforms (ExoComplete, LeukoComplete), and managed clinical studies while shaping regulatory and reimbursement strategies. Skilled in high-throughput PCR, RNA-seq, machine learning and statistical analysis, he pairs deep wet-lab expertise with data-driven biomarker discovery. He has a strong history of building external partnerships and driving open innovation—screening 100+ companies to identify co-development opportunities. Uncommonly for a diagnostics scientist, he contributes to major open-source blockchain projects (Hyperledger Fabric) on backend and i18n efforts, demonstrating cross-disciplinary technical fluency. He holds a PhD from The University of Tokyo and certificates from Harvard Medical School in clinical drug development and cancer genomics.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoHMX Pro online certificate program – Pharmacology - Clinical Drug Development, HMX Pro online certificate program – Pharmacology - Clinical Drug Development at Harvard Medical School
English, Japanese
Github Skills (21)
translation10
distributed-ledger-technology10
typescript10
distributed-ledger10
j10
localization10
go10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
fabric10
nodejs10
typescripts10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
documentation10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger/fabric-docs-i18n
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Hyperledger Fabric is an enterprise-grade permissioned distributed ledger framework for developing solutions and applications. Its modular and versatile design satisfies a broad range of industry use cases. It offers a unique approach to consensus that enables performance at scale while preserving privacy.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:99 reviews, 25 commits, 71 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Taku primarily contributed to translating documentation for the Hyperledger Fabric project into Japanese. They translated various sections, including "What's new in v2.x", "Developing Applications", and application design elements. They also synchronized translated documents with the original ones in the release-2.2 branch.
casesdevelopingdltdistributed-ledgerhyperledger-fabric
hyperledger/fabric-chaincode-node
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
Hyperledger Fabric Node.js Smart Contracts
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 15 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Taku primarily focused on improving the Hyperledger Fabric Node.js smart contracts project. Their contributions included fixing type definitions related to protobuf bytes within the fabric-shim library, ensuring correct data handling. They also updated type definitions for async iterators and improved documentation. Furthermore, the user updated protobuf definitions and implemented a chaincode server feature, expanding the project's capabilities.
hyperledgerfabricnode-jsblockchainnodejs
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