Building tools where biology meets code
I'm Roni, a biomolecular engineer and bioinformatician working on how immune and metabolic pathways shape health and disease, with a current focus on single-cell transcriptomics.
PhD, in progress
Ron-Harel Lab · Technion
About
The short version
I'm a biomolecular engineer and bioinformatician, and a PhD candidate in the Ron-Harel Lab at the Technion. I work at the seam between biology and code, close enough to the bench to know what the data means and fluent enough in code to make it scale.
Outside the lab, I race endurance events and have played soccer my whole life. Both keep me sharp, both keep me sane.
The path
How I got here
- 01 · Where it began
A question that became a calling
Watching friends battle cancer turned a question into a calling: why do diseases take hold, and how do we treat them? That question has pointed me in the same direction ever since.
- 02 · Into the science
Oncology, genomics, bioinformatics
It pulled me into oncology, genomics, and bioinformatics. At UC Santa Cruz I earned my B.S. and M.S. in Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics, building computational pipelines on spatial transcriptomics, single-cell, and CRISPR/Cas9 data.
- 03 · The seam
Where biology meets code
I keep ending up at the seam between the bench and the keyboard, translating messy biological questions into computation, then turning the results back into biology that means something.
- 04 · Now
Immune and metabolic pathways
Today I'm a PhD candidate in the Ron-Harel Lab at the Technion, working to uncover how immune and metabolic pathways shape health and disease.
Three doors