NanoString is a nano biotech company that is working to develop single-molecule barcodes. These barcodes will make it possible to test for thousands of diseases simultaneously so that doctors can tell their patients if they have or may have a specific disease. This is key because early detection of a disease will increase that patient’s survival rate. 

As a Senior Research Scientist, Sean spends a lot of time in the lab doing experiments designing, testing, and validating processees. The equipment Sean works with is on the automation side, which includes robots and scanners. In the next 20-30 years there will be a need for more computer scientists and software engineers because computers are playing a larger part in biology every single day.