Jonathan Irish

Current

• Biotechnology Consultant at JMI
• Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University

Past

• Cancer Biology Graduate Student at Stanford University
• Visiting Scientist at Univesitet i Bergen
• Graduate Student Instructor at Stanford, Cancer Biology 241

• Undergraduate Student Instructor at University of Michigan, Chemistry

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Education

• Stanford University
• University of Michigan

Connections

99 connections

Industry

Biotechnology

Websites

• Publications
• Ron Levy's Laboratory
• Garry Nolan's Laboratory

Jonathan Irish’s Summary

I am a PhD research scientist who is passionate about clinical cancer research and the use of advanced technology to improve cancer therapy.

My current goal is to combine bioinformatics techniques and immunology research in order to understand why cancer patients' cells resist existing therapies. By measuring signaling biology in every single cell in a patient's tumor sample we can build a map of altered biology called a signaling profile.

Part of this goal is to be able to use signaling profiles to guide clinical decision making. I am especially interested in the critical choice of the first therapy for the patient. We are currently applying this approach to leukemia and lymphoma. If successful, I would like to see this approach generalized to many types of cancer.

Jonathan Irish’s Specialties:

Clinical cancer research, tumor immunology, bioinformatics, phospho-specific flow cytometry, arrayed flow cytometry, heat maps and high-throughput data analysis, clincial patient profiling and biomarkers (especially signaling profiles), visualization of multidimensional datasets, scientific software design and programming.

Jonathan Irish’s Experience

• Biotechnology Consultant

  JMI

  (Biotechnology industry)

  May 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Self-employed biotechnology consultant with expertise in lymphoma and leukemia research, phospho-specific flow cytometry, and computational biology.

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  Stanford University

  (Educational Institution; Biotechnology industry)

  April 2004 — Present (4 years 6 months)

  Working as a research scientist in the fields of cancer, immunology, and bioinformatics in the laboratory of Dr. Ronald Levy with the laboratory of Dr. Garry Nolan.

• Cancer Biology Graduate Student

  Stanford University

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  August 1998 — April 2004 (5 years 9 months)

  Conducted scientific research in the laboratory of Dr. Garry Nolan as part of the Cancer Biology PhD program. Identified patterns of cell signaling associated with poor clinical outcome of acute myeloid leukemia patients. Developed new experimental and analysis techniques in flow cytometry (signaling profiles, arrayed flow cytometry).

• Visiting Scientist

  Univesitet i Bergen

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  July 2003 — September 2003 (3 months)

  Taught advanced flow cytometry techniques (lecture and lab practical) and conducted clinical research on acute myeloid leukemia at Univesitet i Bergen, Norway. Worked primarily at Haukeland Hospital as a guest in the laboratory of Dr. Bjørn Tore Gjertsen.

• Graduate Student Instructor

  Stanford, Cancer Biology 241

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  July 2001 — October 2001 (4 months)

  Taught bioscience graduate students in the cancer biology core course. We modified the course design to focus on translating basic research findings into clinically relevant indicators of tumor progression. The culmination of this course was a webpage integrating cancer biology signaling pathways created by the students (facsdragon.stanford.edu/models).

• Undergraduate Student Instructor

  University of Michigan, Chemistry

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  June 1996 — June 1998 (2 years 1 month)

  Planned, taught, and graded a weekly chemistry lab practical and discussion group as part of Honors Undergraduate Structured Study Group (http://www.umich.edu/~chemh215) with Dr. Brian P. Coppola (http://www.umich.edu/~michchem/faculty/coppola/).

Jonathan Irish’s Education

• Stanford University

  PhD, Cancer Biology, 1998 — 2004

• University of Michigan

  B.S., Biology; B.S., Biochemistry; B.S., Chem., Chemistry, 1994 — 1998

  Activities and Societies:

  American Chemical Society Student Affiliates (President), Students of Biology (President), Honors Chemistry SSG leader (www.umich.edu/~chemh215) working for Dr. Brian P. Coppola (www.umich.edu/~michchem/faculty/coppola/)

Additional Information

Jonathan Irish’s Websites:

• Publications
• Ron Levy's Laboratory
• Garry Nolan's Laboratory

Jonathan Irish’s Interests:

Science, computer programming, artificial intelligence, technology, leadership, teaching and mentoring, metis (vs. bie), mythology, logic puzzles, animation, online gaming

Jonathan Irish’s Groups:

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, American Society of Hematology

Jonathan Irish’s Honors:

Fellow of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (2005-2008)
Keystone Symposia Scholarship (2005)
Immunology Training Award, Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (2004)
Training Fellowship in Immunology, School of Medicine, Stanford (2004)
G.J. Lieberman Fellow, School of Medicine, Stanford (2003-2004)
Invited Visiting Medical Scientist Fellow, Univesitet i Bergen, Bergen, Norway (2003)
James H. Clark Stanford Graduate Fellow, Stanford (2000-2003)
Distinguished Student Leadership Award, University of Michigan (1998)
Honors Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Michigan (1996 & 1997)
Regents Alumni Scholar, University of Michigan (1997)
National Science Scholar (1994)

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