Stephen Floor
Co-Founder at Tidepool Life Science Consulting
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Floor is a biotech founder and RNA scientist with 12+ years of hands-on experience bridging RNA biology, genetic medicines, protein biochemistry, and computational biology including ML/AI. A former tenured UCSF faculty member who raised ~$9M and published ~30 papers, he now co-founds and advises multiple stealth and early-stage companies, translating deep mechanistic insight into product-focused R&D, assay design, and IND-enabling strategies. He combines executive experience in team formation, cross-functional leadership, and high-pressure strategic decision-making with practical lab and CRO management across preclinical programs. Unusually for a scientist-founder, his background in computer science and physics lets him fluently integrate computational approaches with wet-lab workflows to accelerate RNA-targeted therapeutics.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of KansasDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biophysics at University of California, San Francisco
Github Skills (19)
sequencing9
region9
rna-seq9
computational-biology8
genomics8
transcript8
bioinformatics8
algorithms7
python6
scientific-computing5
scipy5
graph2
retention2
blast2
pathogen2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stephenfloor/extract-transcript-regions
Oct 2014 - Oct 2015
For biological deep sequencing data. Decompose a UCSC knownGenes/Ensembl GTF file into transcript regions (i.e. exons, introns, UTRs and CDS).
Contributions:25 commits, 11 pushes, 8 comments in 1 year
sequencing
Floor-Lab/filter-fastq
Mar 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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