Flavio Lombardo, PhD

Flavio Lombardo, PhD

PhD graduate

University of Basel

Biography

Flavio Lombardo has a PhD in drug development and microbiology. During his PhD he worked as a data analyst and as a experimentalist at the Swiss TPH in Basel, which is an associate institution to the University of Basel. During this time he managed complex multidisciplinary projects in collaboration with other teams in Basel and abroad.

He is currently pursuing a PostDoc at the University Hospital in Basel as Bioinformatician. He is working with clinical data and is implementing automatized pipelines for personalized medicine. He is also establishing bioinformatics pipelines for the analysis of single cell data and bulk data from cancer samples from ovarian cancer. In his previous experience, Flavio worked as Intern in the Novartis headquarter in Basel. There he improved his coding techniques and he learned novel technologies and methodologies related to data science, programming and clinical trials data. He proved his learning by building customized shiny apps, using JS, CSS and HTML, as well as webpage construction and version control pipeline.

Interests
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biology
  • Computer programming
  • Electronics
Education
  • PhD in Microbiology and Drug Development, 2019

    University of Basel / Swiss TPH

  • MSc in Molecular and Industrial Biotechnology, 2013

    University of Bologna / Karolinska Instute (Stockholm, Sweden)

  • BSc in Molecular Biology, 2011

    University of Catania

Skills

R
Python
git
Databases
Statistics
Electronics

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
PostDoc in Bioinformatics
Apr 2021 – Present Basel, Switzerland

Responsibilities include:

  • Personalized medicine in ovarian cancer
  • Establishing bioinformatics pipelines for bulk and single cell sequencing
  • Establishing version control system and databases
  • Customized dashboards
 
 
 
 
 
Intern in scientific computing and consulting
May 2020 – Oct 2020 Basel, Switzerland

Responsibilities include:

  • Analyzing oncology Ph 3 clinical data
  • Statistical analysis
  • Visualizing data with R-shiny custom dashboards
  • JS, HTML, CSS
 
 
 
 
 
PhD candidate
Oct 2016 – Dec 2019 Basel, Switzerland

Responsibilities include:

  • Pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) studies
  • Primary human liver microtissues for drug screening
  • Developed a novel platform for drug screening based on microfluidic and electrical impedance
  • Teaching R groups
  • Student representative
  • Established solid collaborations
  • Python, R, julia

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