James Valcourt

I’m a Drug Discovery Scientist at D. E. Shaw Research in NYC, where I use custom supercomputers to develop new medicines to treat human disease.

During my Ph.D. in the Systems Biology program at Harvard, I studied the regulatory logic underlying early germ layer cell fate choices in Sharad Ramanathan’s lab. In that work, we predicted and controlled the decisions of human stem cells (paper | talk).

I’m a father to two wonderful children. In whatever time I have left over, I enjoy hiking, listening to comedy podcasts, and telling stories about the microbiome at cocktail parties.