this is yutaro's github. (pronounced "yuu-ta-roe")

tl;dr - yutaro tanaka is a computational biologist at dana-farber cancer institute interested in studying pediatric cancer and other rare diseases.he graduated from columbia engineering, where he studied applied math/biomedical informatics

• i'm currently based in boston 🇺🇸 (and sometimes tokyo 🇯🇵)
• i currently work at thedana-farber cancer institute, department of pediatric oncology in thegillani lab. i'm also fortunate to be affiliated with thevan allen andjaneway labs at dana-farber, and thebroad institute, cancer program.
  • we aim to understand why and how rare, aggressive pediatric solid tumors (all non-blood cancers) arise, develop, and metastasize (travel and plant themselves to different parts of the body).
  • our ultimate goal is to provide insights into how these cancers happen and how we can treat them better.
  • we do this by applying computational biology methods to different kinds of "omics" (eg. genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics) data.

• i graduated fromcolumbia engineering in may 2023 majoring in applied mathematics (with a quantitative biology focus) and minoring in biomedical engineering and philosophy.
  • i was incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to do research in thetatonetti lab working on understanding and building databases for adverse drug events and pharmacogenomics using population genomics, data science, and natural language processing.
    • check outnsides, a big (and machine readable) resource for drug side effects and drug interactions!
  • i'm also extremely greatful to have had the opportunity to work at thezhao lab (the rockefeller university),sumikura lab (the national graduate institute of policy studies, japan),utec (university of tokyo, edge capital),forest inc.,lily medtech, andmicin through various research internships. through these positions, i was fortunate to have very diverse opportunities to tackle different computational problems, develop my own research questions, contribute to quantitative academic research and strategic industry efforts, found/lead data science teams, and mentor/supervise both younger and more senior colleagues.
• before my undergraduate studies, i grew up in 🇯🇵 (osaka and nara), and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (cambridge and leeds).

• i'm currently most interested in the development and application of computational/statistical methods and resources to contribute to the systematic understanding of biological mechanisms and therapeutic target discovery in pediatric and rare diseases

  • more broadly, i'm interested in the questions that involve some intersection of
    • methods : development and application ofcomputational biology / biomedical informatics / natural language processing / statistical genetics
    • resources : development ofmachine-friendly / large-scale / inclusive / representative datasets
    • domains : dissection ofpediatric cancer / rare disease / precision pharmacology / biomedically underrepresented populations

• my recent work (that has been somewhat polished) is available ongoogle scholar ororcid. more coming soon!

• i can be most easily reached at yutaro_tanaka [at] dfci.harvard.edu .

• happy to collaborate, talk anything and everything computational biology and data science!

  • (i am also happy to talk experimental science but no guarantees...)

• another active interest of mine is the "science of science" - the application of data science to understand how to make science more interpretable, effective, predictable, and inclusive for scientists and for stakeholders.

• when i'm not on vscode/an llm, i can usually be found

  • triathlon-ing 🚴 🏊 🏃
  • lounging 🀄 😴 🎵 🎮
  • watching ⚽ ⚾ 🎥 🚗
  • reading 📚
  • cooking

• i care greatly about improving equity in access to educational opportunities and mentorship, and have tried to use my free time to contribute to efforts to achieve this in different contexts.

  • co-foundingatelier basi, a non-profit, free college-prep program to assist more high school students from across japan access higher education opportunities across the globe.
    • the program has mentored ~90 students across japan over the past 4 years, many of whom went to high schools that had never sent a student to a college / university overseas, and lacked any college counseling resources. the organization has helped them matriculate at schools across the world, including highly selective institutions. they have been awarded millions in scholarships + financial aid from private foundations and schools, many on full-rides.
    • i'm so proud of the successes our mentees have already achieved in their academic/personal/professional lives, and hearing how new environments have allowed them to flourish.
    • i'm especially proud of the fact that the majority of them have returned to contibute to the organization to pay it forward to the next generation of students.
  • volunteering throughmusical mentors to teach violin and piano to local elementary students in new york.
  • volunteering throughproject tutors to assist teachers at a elementary school in new york
  • i am always eager to contribute to all kinds of efforts, please reach out if you have anything i may be a good fit for!

(if you haven't noticed already)

• i try to not use uppercase letters unless i really have to.
  • i think capital letters make text look too serious. silly is better than serious.

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1. tatonetti-lab/onsidestatonetti-lab/onsidesPublic

   A resource of adverse drug effects extracted from FDA structured product labels

   Python 81 7