Immaad Mir

• Interdisciplinary, diligent, and results-driven with strong wet lab, computational and analytical thinking skills
• Identifiable contributions to the development of software and bioassays in two early-stage start-ups
• Developing skills and strategies for identifying science-based solutions to real-world problems, exploring their potential as innovations, and shaping opportunities for their development and actualization

VC Analyst – Innovis VC, London UK

• Sourcing early-stage (pre-seed, seed) start-ups for European venture capital
• Supporting investment decisions: due diligence; building business case for early stage start-ups

 Bioengineering Intern – Curio Bioscience, Palo Alto CA

• Independently designed and implemented improvements to the automation of a spatial transcriptome mapping technology, reducing processing time and increasing data accuracy
• Successfully identified and resolved technical issues in Python code that improved the communication between fluidics, lasers, and microscopes, resulting in more efficient and accurate data acquisition
• Developed a daisy-chaining script to enable seamless integration and simultaneous operation of multiple systems, achieving faster and more efficient imaging results

Research and Development Intern – XGenomes, Cambridge, UK

• Worked on a new liquid biopsy technique that detects DNA methylation patterns associated with cancer
• Executed, analysed and interpreted single molecule localization experiments on a TIRF microscope
• Tuned the photo-physics of fluorescent labels and the kinetics of molecular interactions between nucleic acids
• Programmed fluidic/liquid handling systems to work in conjunction with microscopes

MSc Bioscience Entrepreneurship (University College London)

BS Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics (University of California, Santa Cruz)