Double Take: Tiff and Amine

Tiffany Cheng ’s job would be the envy of any 8-year-old. Robots. She works with robots. Specifically, she works with robotic arms and other equipment as an automation engineer at Eikon. How did she end up in such an enviable position???

Back when Tiff was a Research Assistant at her previous biotech, she taught herself how to fix the automation equipment in her lab when it occasionally broke down. She discovered that she both enjoyed and had a knack for working in robotic automation.?

“It’s a great feeling to help design a robot that can do the work more consistently and precisely than a human ever could.”

Tiff began a gradual career transition from service engineer to development engineer, and eventually found her niche at Eikon, where she and other engineers collaborate with our scientists to identify tasks in the scientists’ workflow that can be done by robots. They then design, build and maintain automated tools to perform those tasks automatically.??

“It’s a great feeling to help design a robot that can do the work more consistently and precisely than a human ever could. Automation completes rote tasks so that our scientists can focus on the important work of advancing our pipeline.”

One of those scientists is Amine Driouchi , and his job is equally enviable. Amine peers inside living cells in real time, seeking to understand the complex intracellular interactions that still mystify scientists.??

While studying biochemistry and biomedical engineering during his PhD and postdoc years, Amine found himself drawn to microscopy and single molecule imaging. Applying molecular imaging to drug discovery became his mission, and he is currently fulfilling that mission at Eikon.??

“The scale of what we are trying to do is insane – in a good way.”

Amine is delighted to work with experts who are leading Eikon's drug discovery efforts towards outcomes that will ultimately benefit human life on a grand scale. He played a critical part in transitioning Eikon’s pioneering technology from pilot project to application in drug discovery. The next challenge: mining the incredible wealth of data generated at Eikon to make sense of biological processes that are intrinsically noisy and complex.??

“The scale of what we are trying to do is insane – in a good way. I feel lucky to work with such smart people at Eikon. Every day is rich, with new challenges and questions to answer.”???