Andrew Gao

Andrew is an avid researcher and is the founder and CEO of the world's largest community and nonprofit of youth researchers, The Helyx Initiative.

He is a 2020 ISEF Finalist, one of only 3 students with life sciences projects from San Diego to qualify. He has also been published as first author in a peer-reviewed Elsevier Journal with Impact Factor 2.9 (around top 25% of journals).

Andrew has research experience in gene expression analysis, DNA methylation, disease diagnosis, and more. He has taught at several educational research camps and programs, like Helyx's Bioinformatics Camp.

Background:

1. First author publication in Microbial Pathogenesis

2. 2020 ISEF Finalist

3. San Diego Science Fair 1st Place in Medicine/Health Sciences

4. Kaiser Permanente Award

5. IRIC Insposcience Silver Medal

6. 3 year intern at UCSD Supercomputer Center

7. Summer intern at the Scripps Institute for bioinformatics tool development

8. Founder and CEO of The Helyx Initiative