b'k DAVID COLLINS 14As a Bioinformatician at AbCellera, David Collins 14 focuses on building tools for immunological data. AbCellera provides industry-leading antibody discovery to push therapeutic programs forward and ight disease. He divides his time between developing software, analyzing data, and interfacing with scientists about experiments. This is my \x17irst job after school, so I feel incredibly fortunate to have stumbled my way into this opportunity, said David. In many ways, his path towards this role started back at Greenwood. In his Grade 12 Computer Science course, he developed a small application to help him study for biology. This was a few years before he was properly introduced to the \x17ield, but he had inadvertently created his \x17irst Bioinformatics visualization. The emergence of COVID19 has brought about a complete shift in the focus of Davids work towards supporting AbCelleras rapid pandemic response platform. The companys biologists and engineers began working immediately when the outbreak began, screening samples from one of the \x17irst US patients to recover from the disease. Meanwhile, David ran analysis, debugged prototypes and tried to help make sense of the mountain of data that his colleagues were generating on the human immune response to this virus.Its rare if a day of work goes by that I dont learn something new, whether it be from our data, or my stupendous colleagues. While its often a challenge to keep up, its without a doubt the most exciting part of my job, said David.The teams hard work has been paying o! LYCoV555, an antibody designed to potentially prevent and treat COVID19, emerged from the collaboration between Lilly, a high-quality medicinal company, and AbCellera to create antibody therapies for the prevention and treatment of COVID19. LYCoV555 was the \x17irst therapeutic candidate speci\x17ically developed against SARSCoV2 to enter human clinical trials. It is also the fastest therapeutic antibody molecule ever developed. This has now advanced into Phase 3 trials!Greenwood5GRWD206_Evergreen_2020_v4.indd 5 10/5/20 11:47 PM'