Lauren Young

Lauren Young has extensive work experience in the field of genomics and computational biology. Lauren currently holds the position of Senior Director at Beam Therapeutics, where they oversee the Genomics & Computational Biology department. Prior to this, they worked at Gritstone Oncology as a Bioinformatics Scientist II, where they developed pipelines and algorithms for neoantigen prediction. Lauren also worked at Foundation Medicine as a Bioinformatics Scientist, leading data analysis efforts for genomic profiling and circulating-tumor DNA. Lauren has also held positions at GNS Healthcare, the Broad Institute, and Amgen, where they gained experience in reverse engineering biological data, GWAS analyses, and next-generation sequencing assays. Lauren's work experience dates back to 2006 when they started as a Research Technician at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Lauren Young obtained a Bachelor of Science degree with a minor in Music from Rochester Institute of Technology between 2003 and 2006. Later, they attended Northeastern University from 2007 to 2010 to earn a Master of Science degree in Bioinformatics.