Taner Dagdelen
Co-founder And CEO at Unite Genomics, Inc.
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaner Dagdelen is a biotech entrepreneur and engineer with a decade of experience building patient-centered health technology to accelerate research for rare diseases like ALS. As co-founder and CEO of Unite Genomics, he leads a company that connects patients and real-world data to speed discovery where cures are lacking. His background blends hands-on wet-lab research at Genentech and academic labs with large-scale genomics software work at AMPLab, giving him rare fluency across biology, data, and product. He founded Catalyst@Berkeley to mentor student teams in health-tech innovation, showing a persistent commitment to translating research into impact. Based in Oakland, he pairs technical rigor in genomic data analysis with practical clinical operations and real-world evidence strategies. Colleagues describe him as an operator who intentionally bridges lab bench insights and data-driven product development to serve patient communities.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Turkish, French
Github Skills (13)
predict9
retrieval7
nlp6
natural-language-processing6
bert5
adam2
bioinformatics2
genomics2
genome-analysis2
pipeline1
genetics1
scale1
large-scale1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tkdagdelen/gnocchi
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:70 commits, 20 PRs, 42 pushes in 10 months
tkdagdelen/gnocchi_old
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:22 PRs, 220 pushes, 16 branches in 8 months
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