Sam Friedman

Computational Biologist @ NYGC

New York, New York, United States

About

Experience

  • Computational Biologist at New York Genome Center
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    - Created platform for screening protein-protein interactions with AlphaFold3 and mass spectrometry data; analyzing epistatic interactions with DDG models and evolutionary conservation with Potts models. - Applied ESM embeddings and machine learning to screen data to characterize molecular drivers of CAR-T persistence, proliferation, and therapeutic efficacy. - Designed gRNA libraries for the study of non-coding colorectal cancer, cardiovascular, and Bipolar variants with CRISPRi; precise gene editing in Arabidopsis with CRISPRa; transcriptome targeting with Cas13. - Assessed utility of AlphaGenome, Enformer, and Borzoi for variant prioritization in CRISPR screens. - Built NGS pipeline for multimodal CRISPR-screens (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02475-x).

  • Data Engineering Intern at Regeneron
    Jun 2023 - Dec 2023 · 7 mos

  • Rutgers University (4 yrs)
    • Research Assistant
      Jun 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr

    • Undergraduate Research Assistant
      Sep 2018 - May 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Henry Rutgers Scholar Award for project and Excellence in a Research Presentation Award for best platform talk at annual symposium

    • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
      Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 · 3 mos

      Aresty Summer Science Program