Victor Yuan

About me

Data scientist · Bioinformatics · Biotech
Vancouver, BC

Hello! I’m Victor, a data scientist at Sonoma Biotherapeutics. I help develop T-cell-based therapies for autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. My favorite part of the job is working with brilliant colleagues on new drugs that could improve patients’ lives.

1. 2011BSc
2. 2016PhD
3. 2022Sonoma
4. Present

I first encountered bioinformatics in 2016 as a first-year graduate student in UBC’s Genome Sciences and Technology program. My undergrad was in Cell and Molecular Biology (Honours thesis: CRISPR x Yeast), so I was coming in pretty green to computation and statistics. I feel fortunate to have spent the next five years in an incredibly supportive environment, learning about bioinformatics, genomics, and machine learning. My PhD thesis applied machine learning and cellular epigenetics to study placental development.

I graduated with my PhD in 2022, a brighter time in biotech’s recent history, and found myself at Jeff Bluestone’s Treg company, Sonoma. I still work there today, alongside incredibly talented and kind colleagues developing a new therapy.