Dr. Mamoon Rashid

Mamoon Rashid is currently an Associate Research Scientist in King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC). He holds a PhD degree in Bioinformatics jointly from Institute of Microbial Technology and Jawaharlal Nehru University, India under Dr. GPS Raghava. He obtained a post-doctoral fellowship in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology under Prof. Arnab Pain and Prof. Uli Stingl.

He was one of the team members of Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) initiative by Government of India. He developed many machine learning-based prediction models for functional annotation of Mycobacterial and human genome. He has expertise in next-generation sequencing data (Whole genome sequencing, Whole exome sequencing, RNA-Seq, and Chip-Seq etc.) analysis and downstream analysis for biomedical research. He has a solid understanding of different types of genomic assays and their bioinformatics analyses and their implications in biomedical research.
Currently, in KAIMRC he is focusing on cancer genomics specifically breast cancer and blood cancers to identify “cancer antigens or neoantigens” leading to the development pf personalized cancer vaccine or therapy development.