John Shon, MD, MS, is the Chief Technology Officer of Serimmune where he leads the development of machine learning algorithms for the identification of humoral epitopes in individuals and populations. Dr. Shon was previously VP of Bioinformatics and Data Sciences at Illumina, where he led teams focused on deep learning for the interpretation of whole genomes in rare disease and cancer in the 100.000 genomics project.
Prior to Illumina, Dr. Shon spent more than a decade in pharma as VP of Informatics, Research IT and External Innovation at Janssen, and Roche, where he led teams in translational informatics. He earned his A.B. in Biochemistry from Harvard and an MD from Stanford. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago and his postdoc at Stanford University School of Medicine as an NLM fellow in informatics.