Tim Kunz
Senior Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Kunz is a Senior Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific embedded with Vertex’s Type 1 Diabetes team, applying 11 years of expertise in stem cell biology, beta cell differentiation, and translational diabetes to advance stem cell–derived islet cell-replacement therapies. With a PhD in developmental and regenerative biology from Harvard and training in the Melton and Mahony labs, he uniquely bridges wet-lab experimentation and computational approaches to design data-informed strategies that boost performance, reproducibility, and throughput. His work spans molecular biology, tissue culture, mouse genetics, and in silico perturbation screening to accelerate maturation and function of beta-like cells. Motivated by solving complex biological and manufacturing challenges, he combines hands-on assay development with machine-learning–driven analysis—an uncommon mix that helps translate regenerative medicine toward real-world delivery.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard University
Github Skills (5)
java-api8
ssa8
sequencing8
throughput7
java6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
trk5150/DBSOMA
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
For integrating transcriptional data in a system as defined by a Self-Organizing-Map trained on SC-RNA-seq data
Contributions:2 PRs, 58 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
seqcode/chromosom
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 4 pushes in 3 months
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