Alina Polonskaia

Alina Polonskaia is a skilled computational biologist with extensive experience in the biotechnology sector, currently serving as a Computational Biologist II at Freenome since October 2019. Alina has developed and implemented experimental design and analysis strategies for FDA-facing verification studies and has designed quality control metrics, significantly enhancing assay troubleshooting capabilities. Prior roles include Computational Biologist and Development Scientist at Freenome, where Alina contributed to clinical studies, assay development, and data analysis. Alina gained experience at Illumina as a Research Associate in Clinical Genomics and further developed expertise in assay protocols at Anchor Molecular Inc. Additionally, early research endeavors included genomic data analysis at the Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine. Alina holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University.