Vikram Agarwal
mRNA Platform Design Data Science Head mRNA Center of Excellence, Sanofi
Vikram Agarwal completed his Ph.D. at MIT and post-doc at the University of Washington. Since 2015, he has been applying deep learning methods to investigate the mechanisms of gene regulation. He is applying these methods to advance mRNA therapeutics as the Head of mRNA Platform Design Data Science at the mRNA Center of Excellence at Sanofi.
Seminars
Monday 20th July 2026
Deep Learning Guided Optimization of Translation Efficiency for mRNA Vaccine Development
10:00 am
- Delivered mRNA vaccines benefit from a high protein yield to stimulate an effective immune response
- Training RiboNN, a deep learning model, to predict translation efficiency — a major determinant of protein yield — among numerous cell types
- RiboNN can be used to guide the design of translation-optimized mRNA therapeutics
