Keith Robison

Current

Lead Senior Scientist at Infinity Pharmaceuticals
Blogger at Omics! Omics! (Self-employed)

Past

Consultant at Independent Consultant
Principal Scientist at Codon Devices
Sr Scientist II at Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc

Scientist II at Millennium Pharmaceuticals
consultant at belmont research
Consultant at Genome Therapeutics
Intern at Centocor

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Education

Harvard University
University of Delaware
Downingtown High School

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Keith Robison’s Summary

I develop computational approaches to solve biological and chemical problems in drug development. These combine literature searches, sequence analyses, protein structure analyses, biochemical & interaction networks, transcriptional profiling, RNAi technology, protein array technology, and on line databases. I have extensive previous experience with high-throughput annotation of various genomes

Keith Robison’s Specialties:

Computational biology; protein & DNA sequence analysis; analysis of functional genomics/proteomics data (RNAi, functional protein arrays, transcriptional profiling), extensive understanding of molecular biology/biochemistry/genetics; extensive understanding of drug development

Keith Robison’s Experience

Lead Senior Scientist

Infinity Pharmaceuticals

(Public Company; INFI; Pharmaceuticals industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

Application of cancer genomics information to clinical and pre-clinical small molecule oncology therapeutics.
Manage outsourcing relationships with genomics vendors.
Blogger
Omics! Omics! (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Biotechnology industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Commentary on genomics and proteomics most business days.
Consultant

Independent Consultant

(Biotechnology industry)

March 2009 — May 2009 (3 months)

Worked to define knowledge management, informatics strategy & computational platform for 2 small biotech companies. Developed and ran sequence search strategy for target identification. Identified and cross-referenced somatic mutation data to a customer's gene list.
Principal Scientist

Codon Devices

(Privately Held; Biotechnology industry)

January 2007 — March 2009 (2 years 3 months)

Apply data mining and statistical modeling to process improvement problems in synthetic biology & develop new applications for large scale gene synthesis technology. Designing and analyzing complex DNA libraries for protein engineering. Exploring biochemical networks and identifying synthetic biology schemes to create specialty chemicals via fermentation.
Sr Scientist II

Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MLNM; Biotechnology industry)

July 2000 — December 2006 (6 years 6 months)

Provides computational and statistical support across the pharmaceutical research & development spectrum. Specific areas of expertise include DNA/protein sequence analysis, interpretation of expression array data, statistical modeling of assays, protein arrays, analysis strategies for genome-wide RNAi data, and interpretation of DNA chip pharmacogenomic results.
Scientist II

Millennium Pharmaceuticals

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MLNM; Biotechnology industry)

October 1996 — July 2000 (3 years 10 months)

Developed variety of DNA and protein sequence analysis tools to support the discovery of candidates of novel therapeutic protein and small molecule target
consultant

belmont research

(Biotechnology industry)

1993 — 1996 (3 years )
Consultant

Genome Therapeutics

(Biotechnology industry)

1994 — 1995 (1 year )
Intern

Centocor

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Biotechnology industry)

June 1988 — August 1991 (3 years 3 months)

Was intern during summer & winter breaks. Developed & modified software to track documents and in vitro quality results in an FDA regulated environment. Developed equipment inventory system.

Keith Robison’s Education

Harvard University

PhD , Molecular & Cellular Biology , August 1991 — April 1997

Developed tools to identify genes and transcription factor sites in bacterial genomes. Worked in laboratories of Dr. Walter Gilbert (Nobel laureate) and George Church, two of the pioneers of the human genome project.
University of Delaware

B.S. , Biotechnology , August 1987 — August 1991

Activities and Societies:

Honors degree. Undergraduate research -- received White award. Beta Beta Beta (biology honor society). Student program association
Downingtown High School

1984 — 1987