John Goertz
InvestorFounderPrincipal Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund · Founder at Signatur Biosciences
Danbury, Connecticut, United States
FoundedSignatur Biosciences · YC
About
John Goertz is co-founder and chief scientific officer at Signatur Biosciences, where he applies machine learning to PCR-based diagnostics. He completed postdoctoral research at Imperial College London's Stevens Group as an NIH F32 fellow, and holds a PhD in bioengineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and a BSc in physics and cell & molecular biology from Seattle University.
Founder at Signatur BiosciencesYC S22
Intro paths
YC
John went through Y Combinator (Summer 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Signatur Biosciences's investors · 2
Co-founders at Signatur Biosciences
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Celestin de WergifosseFounder
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Celestin de WergifiosseCEO
Experience
- Boehringer IngelheimPrincipal Scientistcurrent2025 — presentRidgefield, CT
- PyMC LabsPrincipal Data Scientist2025 — 2026
- Signatur Biosciences (YC S22)Chief Scientific Officer2022 — 2025
- Imperial College LondonNIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellow2019 — 2022London, United Kingdom
- University of MarylandGraduate Research Assistant - White Lab2013 — 2018College Park, MD
- Seattle UniversityResearch Assistant2011 — 2013
- Seattle UniversityAssistant Audio/Visual Technician2011 — 2013
- Seattle UniversityResearch Assistant2012
Skills & more
Team LeadershipManagementBayesian statistics1Biomarker Discovery1Deep LearningBiotechnologyGenomics1Statistical Data AnalysisBioinformatics1Molecular Design1Spatial AnalysisArtificial Intelligence (AI)
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TranscriptomicsRNAseqComputational BiologyMolecular ModelingGenerative DesignMolecular DiagnosticsBioengineeringMachine LearningData ScienceData VisualizationPostgreSQLSQLLanguages English · German
From John's professional profile.
Colleagues at Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund
Aditya Kumar Peri
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Dr. Holger Schlageter
Investor at Sunfish Partners
Dr. Holger Schlageter
Investor at Sunfish Partners
Dr. Michael Wacker
Managing Partner at BioMedPartners
Jessica Swartz
Executive Advisory Board at NYU Innovation Venture Fund
Sebastian Eberhardt
Investor at Sunfish Partners
Frequently asked questions
- Who is John Goertz?
- John Goertz is co-founder and chief scientific officer at Signatur Biosciences, where he applies machine learning to PCR-based diagnostics. He completed postdoctoral research at Imperial College London's Stevens Group as an NIH F32 fellow, and holds a PhD in bioengineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and a BSc in physics and cell & molecular biology from Seattle University.
- Where does John Goertz work?
- John Goertz is Founder of Signatur Biosciences and Principal Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund.
- What companies did John Goertz found?
- John Goertz founded Signatur Biosciences.
- Where did John Goertz go to school?
- John Goertz studied at University of Maryland (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioengineering); Seattle University (Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics); Seattle University (Bachelor of Science (BS), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology).
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