Sean Murphy
Director/Board Member at Flagship Pioneering
Profile
Sean Murphy joined Flagship Pioneering 2021 as a Senior Director of Cloud Architecture.
He provides expert guidance to Flagship companies around all aspects of cloud computing and leads the development of next-generation data and scientific computing platforms.
Sean’s passion is capturing and taming the complexity of biology with computational methods at scale.
Sean joined Flagship from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he was Senior Solutions Architect for Healthcare and Life Sciences Startups.
While at AWS, Sean was a leading member of the Life Sciences Technical Field Community, where he specialized in AI/ML Deep Phenotyping and Data Lake architectures and provided thought leadership to over 400 startups.
Prior to AWS, Sean was the Director of Scientific Computing for the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), where his team worked alongside 800 research staff and developed novel architectures for scaling optogenetic imaging pipelines to support millions of samples.
Before HHMI, Sean was Software Engineering Lead for metagenomics annotation pipelines at the J.
Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), and Senior Software Engineer at Celera Genomics.
Sean has a Ph.D.
in Neuroscience from Yale University, and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biology from MIT.
Sean Murphy active positions
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Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering Investment ManagersFinance Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Director/Board Member | 2021-08-31 |
Former positions of Sean Murphy
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Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. Data Processing ServicesTechnology Services Amazon Web Services, Inc. engages in provision of information technology infrastructure services. Its solutions include archiving, backup and restore, blockchain, business applications, containers, content delivery, database migrations, data lakes and analytics, development operations, e-commerce, high performance computing, hybrid cloud architectures, Internet of Things, mobile services, modern application development, scientific computing, serverless computing, and websites. The company was founded by Andrew R. Jassy in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 2021-08-31 |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc. (Investment Management)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc. (Investment Management) Investment Trusts/Mutual FundsMiscellaneous Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc. (Investment Management) (HHMI-IM) is the investment management division of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc. (HHMI), a non-profit medical research organization headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Founded in 1953, HHMI-IM manages the investment of HHMI which supports basic biomedical scientists and science educators with the potential for transformative impact. | Director/Board Member | 2019-08-31 |
J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc.
J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc. operates as a not-for-profit genomics research organization. It conducts research on human genomic medicine, infectious diseases, plant genomics, microbial and environmental genomics, synthetic biology and biological energy, bioinformatics, and software engineering. The firm also develops a suite of software packages for sequencing/assembly, gene finding, annotation, genome analysis, microarray data analysis and normalization, protein expression quantitation, computational management, and cloud-based bioinformatics. The company was founded by J. Craig Venter and Hamilton O. Smith in October 2006 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 2009-12-31 |
Training of Sean Murphy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Undergraduate Degree |
Yale University | Graduate Degree |
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc. (Investment Management)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc. (Investment Management) Investment Trusts/Mutual FundsMiscellaneous Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc. (Investment Management) (HHMI-IM) is the investment management division of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Inc. (HHMI), a non-profit medical research organization headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Founded in 1953, HHMI-IM manages the investment of HHMI which supports basic biomedical scientists and science educators with the potential for transformative impact. | Miscellaneous |
Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering Investment ManagersFinance Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Finance |
J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc.
J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc. operates as a not-for-profit genomics research organization. It conducts research on human genomic medicine, infectious diseases, plant genomics, microbial and environmental genomics, synthetic biology and biological energy, bioinformatics, and software engineering. The firm also develops a suite of software packages for sequencing/assembly, gene finding, annotation, genome analysis, microarray data analysis and normalization, protein expression quantitation, computational management, and cloud-based bioinformatics. The company was founded by J. Craig Venter and Hamilton O. Smith in October 2006 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD. | Commercial Services |
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. Data Processing ServicesTechnology Services Amazon Web Services, Inc. engages in provision of information technology infrastructure services. Its solutions include archiving, backup and restore, blockchain, business applications, containers, content delivery, database migrations, data lakes and analytics, development operations, e-commerce, high performance computing, hybrid cloud architectures, Internet of Things, mobile services, modern application development, scientific computing, serverless computing, and websites. The company was founded by Andrew R. Jassy in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | Technology Services |
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