Petar Scepanovic

Principal Scientist at Roche

Basel, Basel, Switzerland

About

Scientist employing omics tools in combination with advanced statistical methods to study human complex diseases and microbiome with a strong entrepreneurial outlook.

Experience

  • Roche (Basel, Switzerland)
    • Principal Scientist
      Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

      Investigation of microbiome and genetics data in different therapeutic areas. Part of Predictive Modelling and Data Analytics chapter within pRED's Pharmaceutical Sciences department.

    • Senior Scientist
      May 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Investigation of microbiome and genetics data in different therapeutic areas. Part of Predictive Modelling and Data Analytics chapter within pRED's Pharmaceutical Sciences department.

    • Senior Scientist (PHC funded)
      Feb 2020 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Investigation of microbiome in different therapeutic areas funded by Personalized Healthcare (PHC) division. Part of Bioinformatics Exploratory Data Analysis group within the pRED's Pharmaceutical Sciences department.

  • University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England, United Kingdom)
    • College Research Associate
      Sep 2019 - Dec 2019 · 4 mos

      College Research Associateship at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK.

    • Postdoctoral Research Associate
      May 2019 - Dec 2019 · 8 mos

      Integrative analysis of genetic basis of complex diseases (cardiovascular and metabolic) with protein structure and drug interactions by using machine learning and polygenic risk scores. Part of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care. Supervised by Prof. Mike Inouye.

  • EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) (4 yrs 6 mos)
    • Postdoctoral Scientist
      Jan 2019 - Mar 2019 · 3 mos

      Analyzed healthy human nasal microbiome data and led a first author publication of a manuscript through a peer-review process. Supervised by Prof. Jacques Fellay.

    • Doctoral Researcher
      Oct 2014 - Dec 2018 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Analyzed human genomic, immune, microbiome and viral data of healthy individuals and infectious disease patients and contributed to discovering underlying genetic determinants of healthy and disease states. Supervised by Prof. Jacques Fellay and co-supervised by Prof. Bart Deplancke.

  • University of Turin (Turin, Italy)
    • Research Assistant
      Jul 2013 - Sep 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Constructed a Met kinase receptor signature and contributed to classifying patients of pediatric cancer rhabdomyosarcoma. Supervised by Prof. Paolo Provero in the Bioinformatics Lab at Molecular Biotechnology Center (MBC).

    • Research Assistant
      Mar 2012 - Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Contributed to understanding the role of the Met receptor in rhabdomyosarcoma by working on the cancer cell lines and a mouse model. Supervised by Prof. Carola Ponzetto in the Molecular Biology Lab at Research Center for Experimental Medicine (Centro di Ricerca in Medicina Sperimentale - CeRMS) in Molinette Hospital.