Dinko Franceschi
PhD student, Harvard University
Associated Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
200 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
About
Dinko Franceschi’s research focuses on developing novel multi-modal AI models to understand the genetic basis of human diseases and enhance early cancer detection. He co-leads a project at Harvard Medical School studying the effects of missense genetic variants on heritable diseases. He also holds an Associate Researcher appointment at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Previously, Dinko worked as an AI Research Engineer at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute. He was awarded a machine learning research Fellowship as a Visiting Scholar the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken, Germany. Prior to his PhD in Systems Biology at Harvard, Dinko studied mathematics at Columbia University.
Recent Publications
Deep generative modeling of the human proteome reveals over a hundred novel genes involved in rare genetic disorders.
Orenbuch, R., Kollasch, A. W., Spinner, H. D., Shearer, C. A., Hopf, T. A., Franceschi, D., Dias, M., Frazer, J. & Marks, D. S.
ProteinGym: Large-Scale Benchmarks for Protein Design and Fitness Prediction.
P. Notin, A. Kollasch, D. Ritter, L. Van Niekerk, S. Paul, H. Spinner, N. Rollins, A. Shaw, R. Weitzman, J. Frazer, M. Dias, D. Franceschi, et al.
Research Interests
- Human Genetics
- Protein Design
- Non-coding DNA