Senior Biomedical Informatics Research Scientist

Shameer Khader, PhD

Senior Biomedical Informatics Research Scientist


Job Description   – Senior Staff Scientist (Translational Bioinformatics, Genomic Medicine, and Healthcare Data Science)   Collaborations/Studies/Specialties   Currently, lead portfolio projects in the broad area of data-driven precision medicine:   - Translational bioinformatics: Discovery, method and resource development projects - Clinical informatics: Leveraging big data from hospital operations for patient stratification (Collaboration with Mount Sinai Health System leadership) - Cardiovascular Informatics: Developing machine learning and risk prediction algorithms for phenotyping (Collaboration with Sengupta Laboratory, Mount Sinai Heart) - Nanobioinformatics: Combining omics data and nanobiotechnology to discover and develop new cancer therapies (Collaboration with Mukherjee Laboratory, University of Oklahoma) - Cancer informatics: Developing multiscale models of prostate cancer, NEPC and ovarian cancer (Collaboration with Tewari Lab, Mount Sinai and Resham Lab, University of Oklahoma) - Genomic Medicine: Discovery projects to find genetic basis of multi-morbidities (Collaboration with Ritchie Laboratory,  and Kullo Laboratory, Mayo Clinic) - YELLOW-II clinical trial (Collaboration with Drs. Jagat Narula and Annapoorna Kini, Mount Sinai Heart)   Past Experience   - Research Associate (Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics, Metabolomics, Pharmacomicrobiome), Mayo Clinic, USA - Post-Doctoral Fellow (Cardiovascular Diseases, Genomics, and Bioinformatics), Mayo Clinic, USA - Bioinformatics Software Engineer, National Center for Biological Sciences, India - Bioinformatics Analyst, Indian Institute of Science, India - Graduate Student (Junior and Senior Research Fellowship supported by Wellcome Trus, UK, and Department of Biotechnology, India) - Computational Genomics - Intern, Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India   Future Endeavors   - Translational Bioinformatics - Precision Medicine - Personalized Therapeutics   Publications List   Publication list at Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=XSh3WiAAAAAJ&pagesize=100&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate Publication list at PubMed: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=shameer+k%5BAU%5D