What is your name? Sanjana Shah (SS), Sucheta Godbole (SG)
What is your hometown? SS: Los Angeles, SG: Pune, India
Where do you work?
SS: I work for a smaller biotech company in N.Y.C. that primarily focuses on using their proprietary A.I.-based software to predict drug targets and biomarkers through splicing discovery from RNA-seq data.
SG: National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (N.I.AI.D.), Vaccine Research Center (V.R.C.)
What is your job title? SS: Bioinformatics Analyst, SG: Bioinformatics Scientist
Have you always wanted to be a bioinformatician? Can you tell us about your journey to this career path?
SS: I had no idea what a bioinformatician was when I started pursuing my undergraduate career. I majored in microbiology and host/pathogen interactions and intended to apply to medical school post-graduation.
