How to triage drug targets

Kyle Nilson, Ph.D., Field Software Trainer at QIAGEN Digital Insights , QIAGEN Digital Insights

Kyle Nilson is a sequencing-focused molecular biologist with a background in biochemistry and technical support. As a field software trainer, he works closely with the global bioinformatics team at QIAGEN to provide direct customer support, software training, implementation and optimization. Prior to QIAGEN, Kyle completed his postdoctoral training at Pennsylvania State University and Cornell University, with an exclusive focus on developing next-generation sequencing methods to study chromatin. He earned his PhD in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Iowa, where he studied the regulation of RNA polymerase II transcription and co-transcriptional mRNA processing.

Kristin O'Malley, Senior Field Application Scientist, QIAGEN Digital Insights

Kristin O’Malley has spent much of her career at the bench in genomics labs in the clinical space, large pharmaceutical companies, and small start-up biotechs. She took this experience and switched gears a few years ago to become a field application scientist. She enjoys the broad spectrum of biology she encounters and empowering scientists to be successful in their own endeavors.

Tim Hou, Ph.D., Senior Field Application Scientist, QIAGEN Digital Insights

Tim Hou is a Senior Field Application Scientist at QIAGEN Digital Insights, where he leverages extensive expertise in molecular biology, genomics, and bioinformatics to support researchers using QIAGEN’s biological data analysis and interpretation platforms. Before joining QIAGEN, Tim served as an Assistant Instructor and Postdoctoral Researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where his work focused on enhancer RNA biology, estrogen receptor signaling, and transcriptional regulation in cancer. Tim holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University and has authored more than twenty peer reviewed publications spanning genomics, transcription, cancer biology, immunology, and circadian biology. He is an experienced scientific communicator and cross disciplinary collaborator who is passionate about helping researchers translate complex biological questions into meaningful insights using QIAGEN solutions.

Araceli Cuellar, Ph.D., Senior Field Application Scientist, QIAGEN Digital Insights

Araceli Cuellar is a Senior Field Application Scientist in the QIAGEN Digital Insights team. She received her PhD from UC Davis where she studied the role of BMP/TGFβ family proteins in cartilage regeneration and pediatric cartilaginous tumor development. Prior to joining QIAGEN, she managed a laboratory at UC Davis, focusing on characterizing the development of rare pediatric craniofacial conditions using clinical assessments and molecular, genomic, and functional approaches.

Shawn Prince, Staff Field Application Scientist, QIAGEN Digital Insights

Shawn Prince is a genomics and bioinformatics specialist with over 20 years of experience supporting life science researchers in the analysis and interpretation of complex biological data. Throughout his career, he has worked closely with academic, clinical, and translational research teams to help implement scalable genomic analysis workflows and extract meaningful biological insights from next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. In his role, Shawn focuses on enabling scientists to effectively utilize platforms such as CLC Genomics Workbench and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) to analyze RNA-seq, variant, and multi-omics datasets. He works collaboratively with research institutions to design reproducible bioinformatics pipelines, deploy centralized analysis infrastructure, and streamline the transition from raw sequencing data to biological interpretation.

Devendra Mistry, Ph.D., Associate Director Field Application Science, QIAGEN Digital Insights

Devendra is the manager of North America QIAGEN Digital Insights (QDI) Discovery Field Application Scientists team. Before becoming a manager, he served as a Field Application Scientist himself helping both academic and biopharma customers throughout the US with IPA, CLC, OmicSoft and other QDI products. Devendra received his PhD from University of California San Diego (UCSD) Biomedical Sciences graduate program and did postdoctoral studies under both academic and pharmaceutical settings focusing on stem cells, cancer stem cells, next gen sequencing, gene-editing and more.

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How to triage drug targets with curated, causal relationships data

You will learn how to

aggregate relevant findings across our comprehensive disease and gene ontologies

cross-reference clinical trial results to focus your research on genes upstream or downstream of known drug targets

filter causal relationships by the directionality of observed effects and combine these methods to accelerate the drug discovery process

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