Marcellus Augustine

Postdoctoral researcher | Medical Student

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Postdoctoral Researcher & Visiting Scientist at UCL
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Applying AI techniques to proteomics and clinical data

  • Software Development Placement at The Francis Crick Institute
    Jan 2025 - Apr 2025 · 4 mos

    Maintained and extended large, complex, multi-modal databases for a leading life sciences institution. Back-end (Python’s Django framework) and front-end development (HTML, JavaScript, and CSS).

  • MBPhD in AI for drug discovery at UCL
    Sep 2021 - Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Tumour Immunogenomics and Immunosurveillance & Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability groups. I use advanced machine learning techniques to integrate high-dimensional, multi-modal biological data to understand tumour-immune relationships and thus identify novel immuno-oncology drug targets. This involves collating, harmonising, and analysing data from patient samples, population-scale biobanks, experimental model systems and biomedical databases. Subsequently, I develop and test diverse algorithms to identify a robust system for target inference. Following target identification, I am experienced in prioritising candidates for further review and functional validation in experimental platforms.

  • Critical Care Unit Healthcare Assistant at NHS
    Feb 2021 - Feb 2021 · 1 mo

  • Core Team at YoungAcademics
    Aug 2019 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

    As an Advisor, I am part of the YoungAcademics Core Team. I guide medical students in setting up and running a successful YoungAcademics Division within their university. I have successfully overseen the setting up of a new YoungAcademics branch at the University of East Anglia, Anglia Ruskin University, and the University of Manchester. YoungAcademics is a research collaboration platform which aims to provide medical students access to research projects which are likely to culminate in publications and/or presentations, and provide tutorials to help students develop key research skills.