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Jennifer Tom

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Senior Director (Biostatistics) at Natera
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Jennifer Tom is the Senior Director of Biostatistics at Natera, specializing in next-generation sequencing, Bayesian modeling, and machine learning. Her distinguished career includes leadership roles at Delfi Diagnostics, GRAIL, and Genentech. She holds a Ph. D. in Statistics from UCLA.

Jennifer has a key interest in building talented teams, often posting about hiring for roles that support adaptive and risk-stratified oncology studies. She actively seeks new talent to advance biomarker analysis.

She co-authored a publication on the critical challenge of identifying and mitigating batch effects in whole-genome sequencing data.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Senior Director (Biostatistics)
Job Level
Senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Oncology Clinical Trials
Actively hiring to support MRD-informed clinical trials, with a focus on creating adaptive and risk-stratified studies in oncology.
Genomic Data Science
Her expertise is centered on next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, and applied statistics, including methods to mitigate data batch effects.
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Career

Work history

11-2025
Senior Director (Biostatistics)
Natera
7-2022 - 9-2024
Senior Director (Bioinformatics & Data Sciences, Research)
Delfi Diagnostics
5-2021 - 5-2022
Director (Bioinformatics)
GRAIL, Inc.
8-2020 - 1-2021
Senior Principal Statistical Scientist
Genentech
6-2019 - 8-2020
Principal Statistical Scientist
Genentech
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Education
2007 - 2011
Ph.D.
UCLA
2005 - 2007
MS
UCLA
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