Aaron Mackey

VP, Head of AI and ML

Aaron Mackey, PhD, is VP of Data & AI/ML at Sonata Therapeutics, where he leads all data engineering, modeling, and insight delivery activities in support of Sonata’s therapeutic development programs and the underlying proprietary biology platform used to identify novel targeted therapeutic candidates that induce immunogenic tumor cell death. Aaron’s 20+ years of career experience have spanned many diverse academic and industrial positions, large pharma and small biotech companies, preclinical and clinical organizations, and scientific and operational management. Originally trained as a wet-bench cellular immunologist, he chose to use his long-standing academic skills and interests with computer science and statistics to cross-train as a computational biologist during the era of the Human Genome Project and is now a generalist in pharma-related AI/ML methods and applications. A frequent speaker and open-source community mentor, he continues to hunt opportunities to mine multiomic data in search of mechanistic hypotheses that reveal disease-relevant (and therapeutically exploitable) insights. Aaron received his B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Reed College; his M.S. in Immunology from Washington University in St. Louis; and his PhD in Microbiology from the University of Virginia, with a short postdoc at the Penn Genomics Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, where he developed the first methods for statistically integrated, consensus eukaryotic gene structure prediction.

Talks About
#computationalbiology #statisticalmodeling #r

Preferred Locations
#NorthAmerica