Vinay Kartha
Principal Scientist at Gordian Biotechnology
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVinay Kartha is a Principal Scientist with nine years of experience applying computational biology and single-cell genomics to unravel mechanisms of human disease and guide drug discovery. He bridges academia and industry, having led large-scale generation and integrative analysis of bulk and single-cell assays (ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, mRNA/miRNA-seq, CNA) across hematopoiesis, oncology and neurodegeneration. At Gordian Biotechnology and previously at Harvard/Broad, he developed statistical and computational methods to prioritize functional disease drivers and interpret in vivo and in vitro perturbation screens. His work combines wet‑lab familiarity—from RNA extraction to sequencing pipelines—with expertise in downstream modeling, enabling translationally relevant candidate selection. Notably, he has applied these approaches to complex disorders such as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease, pairing deep domain knowledge with pragmatic tool-building to accelerate preclinical target validation.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
ICSC,ISC, ICSC,ISC at Bishop Cotton Boys' SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Biotechnology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Biotechnology at People's Education Society Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics at Boston University
Github Skills (72)
seq9
genomics9
single-cell-genomics9
bioinformatics9
cran9
rna-seq8
heatmap8
infer8
transcriptomics8
gene-expression8
r-package8
single-cell-analysis7
scenic7
clustering6
genetic6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
buenrostrolab/FigR
Feb 2022 - Sep 2024
Functional Inference of Gene Regulation
Contributions:3 releases, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
buenrostrolab/BuenRTools
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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