Tural Aksel
Co-Founder, CSO at Deciphr Health
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolTural Aksel is a biophysicist and serial co-founder with a decade of experience building molecular and single-molecule measurement platforms that bridge protein engineering, DNA nanotechnology, and computational design. As CSO at Deciphr Health and previously a technical lead at Lunar Biosciences, Nautilus, and Encodia, he has driven de novo peptide sequencing, DNA origami architectures for single-protein detection, and AI-guided binder engineering. His background combines hands-on wet lab innovation with software and theoretical frameworks—he has developed cryo-EM automation tools, thermodynamic/kinetic models, and C++ software for protein folding analyses. Based in Redwood City, he routinely turns deep biophysics insight into scalable reagents, IP, and production workflows, and is known for scaling DNA nanostructure reagents that underpinned platform commercialization.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Bachelor's Degree, Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at Sabanci UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityHigh School, Science, High School, Science at Izmir Fen Lisesi
Turkish, English
Github Skills (18)
genomics8
os-agnostic8
bioinformatics8
origami8
package-management7
conda7
python7
python-bindings7
microscopy6
linux6
gliding6
ecosystem5
cython4
data-analysis4
package-manager3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
douglaslab/cryoorigami
Dec 2017 - Sep 2021
DNA Origami TEM data analysis package
Contributions:190 commits, 4 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 9 months
data-analysisdnaorigamitemgenomics
turalaksel/FASTrack
Jan 2016 - Nov 2021
Software for automated analysis of in-vitro motility gliding assays
Contributions:49 commits, 13 PRs, 88 pushes in 5 years 11 months
bioinformaticsautomated-analysisglidingvitro
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