Imogen Wright

Imogen Wright is a South African[1] software developer and bioinformatician. She is co-founder and CTO of Hyrax Biosciences,[2] a software development company specialising in DNA analysis programs.[3]

Education

She earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Physics at Rhodes University.[4] She then earned a Master of Science in Theoretical Physics at the Perimeter Institute in Canada.[2] In 2015 she also earned a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Western Cape.[5]

Career

In the past Wright has worked for Skimlinks. She was senior software developer and team leader at the big data startup in London. Wright also worked for the Amazon EC2 compute team as a software development engineer.[2] She was a UWC-SANBI (University of the Western Cape’s South African Bioinformatics Institute) post-doctoral research fellow.[6]

Awards

Wright was the 2016 runner-up for the Innovation Prize for Africa.[7] She won the prize of $25,000[8] for Exatype, a piece of software developed by Hyrax Biosciences. Exatype is drug-resistance testing software[7] for HIV-positive patients.[1] She was also invited to, but did not attend, the five-week Techwoman program in 2016. From 2300 applicants she was one of 90 chosen women. The program was started by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2011.[6]

Publications
  • IPProgress: Imogen Wright, Asking the “right” questions[4]
  • The Conversation: How South Africa can stop HIV drug resistance in its tracks (May 22, 2015)[9]
  • Oxford Academic: RAMICS: trainable, high-speed and biologically relevant alignment of high-throughput sequencing reads to coding DNA (May 26, 2014)[10]
  • The Journal of Immunology: Ability To Develop Broadly Neutralizing HIV-1 Antibodies Is Not Restricted by the Germline Ig Gene Repertoire (April 17, 2015)[11]
  • Google Scholar, patents: Testing the operation of an application programming interface (October 14, 2014)[12]

References
  1. Katie Pisa; Sophie Morlin-Yron. "The 10 best inventions from Africa". CNN. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  2. "Hyrax Biosciences | Team". hyraxbio.co.za. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  3. "Hyrax Biosciences | Our Technology". hyraxbio.co.za. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  4. "Imogen Wright: Asking the "Right" Questions". IP Progress. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  5. "UWC making a difference". issuu. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  6. University, Rhodes. "Dr Imogen Wright (2005)". Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  7. "UWC Researcher Dr Imogen Wright: Runner-Up for the African Innovation Prize". www.uwc.ac.za. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  8. Shapshak, Toby. "Malaria, HIV/Aids Solutions Win Big At Innovation Prize for Africa". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  9. Wright, Imogen. "How South Africa can stop HIV drug resistance in its tracks". The Conversation. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  10. Wright, Imogen A.; Travers, Simon A. (2014-07-29). "RAMICS: trainable, high-speed and biologically relevant alignment of high-throughput sequencing reads to coding DNA". Nucleic Acids Research. 42 (13): e106. doi:10.1093/nar/gku473. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 4117746. PMID 24861618.
  11. Scheepers, Cathrine; Shrestha, Ram K.; Lambson, Bronwen E.; Jackson, Katherine J. L.; Wright, Imogen A.; Naicker, Dshanta; Goosen, Mark; Berrie, Leigh; Ismail, Arshad (2015-05-01). "Ability To Develop Broadly Neutralizing HIV-1 Antibodies Is Not Restricted by the Germline Ig Gene Repertoire". The Journal of Immunology. 194 (9): 4371–4378. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1500118. ISSN 0022-1767. PMC 4513073. PMID 25825450.
  12. , Ginsberg, Beth H.; David Brown & Neil A. Eriksson, "Testing the operation of an application programming interface"
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