Tailynn McCarty

About Tailynn McCarty

Hi! My name is Tailynn (tie-lynn). At the end of every experiment, every model, and every process optimization, there is a patient waiting on the other side of that result. That belief has shaped every decision I\'ve made in my career.I\'m a translational scientist with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering (NSF GRFP Fellow) and a background that spans wet lab research, clinical-stage manufacturing, and data science. But more than any title or technique, what drives me is the conviction that science only fully earns its place when it connects back to the people it was meant to help, developing real answers for patients who are waiting for them.My career has taken me from engineering tissue scaffolds and optimizing EV production pipelines, to cGMP manufacturing, to building machine learning models on clinical patient data. Those experiences look different on paper but they\'ve always pointed toward understanding what is driving disease precisely enough to do something meaningful about it. I work in R, Python, and SQL, and I\'ve spent my career learning to speak the language of whatever room I\'m in. But the conversation I care most about having is the one that keeps patients at the center of the science. If that resonates with you, I\'d love to connect. When I’m not at the bench or coding, I’m making mountable flower arangements and sculpted art.

Experience

1. Senior Associate Scientist

   Lyric Bio

   Nov 2025 — Present

   Optimizing B cell culture processes to produce high yields of IgG, ensuring cellular health and phenotype stability while maintaining compliance with lab and biotech standards- Leading root-cause analysis of culture failures, identifying process variables impacting cell health, phenotype, and productivity, and implementing corrective actions to improve robustness and reproducibility- Contributing to experimental design strategy, incorporating appropriate controls, replication, and variance analysis to strengthen data robustness and interpretability

Education

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Engineering

• Community College of Rhode Island

  Associate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies

  2013 — 2015

• University of Rhode Island

  Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering - Pharmaceutical Track

  2015 — 2019