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Beryl Cummings

Head of Genetics, MAR001 Program Team Lead at Marea Therapeutics

San Francisco, California

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VC

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  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Science
Microscopy
Statistics
Cell
Research
Molecular Biology
Data Analysis
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Work Experience

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Marea Therapeutics

2023

  • Head of Genetics, Program Team Lead

    2023

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Third Rock Ventures

2021 - 2024

  • Senior Associate

    2021 - 2024

    Building Marea Therapeutics and stealth neurodegeneration newco

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Maze Therapeutics

2019 - 2021

  • Human Genetics Data Scientist II

    2021 - 2021

  • Human Genetics Data Scientist

    2019 - 2021

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Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

2015 - 2019

  • PhD Candidate in Laboratory of Daniel MacArthur

    2015 - 2019

    Spearheaded the use of transcriptome sequencing in rare disease diagnosis, including methods development and analysis, with a special focus on Mendelian neuromuscular disorders; resulted in first author publication in Science Translational Medicine. Led the development of transcript-expression aware annotation for variant interpretation, and its integration into the Genome Aggregation Dataset (gnomAD) browser and models of constraint ; resulted in first author publication in Nature. Led the analysis of mutli-nucleotide variants in the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) ; published in Nature (ExAC flagship manuscript) 2016 and Nature 2020 (gnomAD flagsip manuscript)

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Duke University

2011 - 2014

  • Research Assistant in Laboratory of Kristin Scott & Huntington F. Willard

    2011 - 2014

    Development of a heterochromatin inheritance assay in S.pombe to elucidate mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance at single cell resolution

  • Instructor, House Course

    2012 - 2013

    Designed and co-instructed a for-credit course to Duke undergraduates on the ethical and legal implications of genetic testing, with a special focus on direct-to-consumer genetic testing Spring 2012: HCS59: Your Future in a Test Tube Spring 2013: HCS79: Your Genes, Your Health

Office of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz

2014 - 2014

  • Research Assistant

    2014 - 2014

    Capstone research project drafting policy recommendations for the congresswoman on BRCA genetic testing and follow up care, with a focus was on expanding Medicare,Medicaid and ACA coverage for testing

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Institut Pasteur

2013 - 2013

  • Research Assistant, Laboratory of Jean Christophe Olivo-Marin, Unité d’Analyse d'Images Biologiques

    2013 - 2013

    As part of the Pasteur Foundation Fellowship Project: Understanding amoebic dysentery pathogenesis via 4D microscopy of bleb-based E. histolytica motility

District Six Museum

2012 - 2012

  • Intern, Department of Education

    2012 - 2012