Jennifer Tom

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Senior Director (Biostatistics) at Natera

San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Overview

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.

Personality Overview

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Value Driven

Curious

They ask a lot of questions and rely heavily on information and collaterals.  They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince.

Topics They Care About

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.
Biostatistics Leadership
Holds senior director roles at leading diagnostics and biotech companies like Natera, Delfi Diagnostics, and GRAIL, managing biostatistics and bioinformatics teams.

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Work History

11-2025
Senior Director (Biostatistics) at Natera
7-2022 - 9-2024
Senior Director (Bioinformatics & Data Sciences, Research) at Delfi Diagnostics
5-2021 - 5-2022
Director (Bioinformatics) at GRAIL, Inc.
8-2020 - 1-2021
Senior Principal Statistical Scientist at Genentech
6-2019 - 8-2020
Principal Statistical Scientist at Genentech

Education

2007 - 2011
Ph.D. from UCLA
2005 - 2007
MS from UCLA

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