Dr Ahmed Alhendi BSc, MSc, PhD

Research Fellow in Bioinformatics

Dr Ahmed Alhendi is a Research Fellow in Bioinformatics within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton.

Dr Alhendi a biomedical scientist with 6 years’ work experience in Bioinformatics and computational methods. His expertise lies in bioinformatics analysis, integration, and interpretation of genomic and clinical datasets, developing computational methods to answer fundamental questions in cancer and rare disease. He is proficient in planning, designing and executing data-driven experiments.

He completed his PhD in Genetics at the department of Genetics at the University of Leicester, investigating genetic and transcriptomic changes associated with alternative lengthening of telomeres in Sarcoma cell lines. Subsequently, he worked in Nicola's Royle's laboratory at the University of Leicester, analysing genomic data from soft tissue sarcoma from patients treated through the East Midland Sarcoma Service. In 2019, he commenced a post-doctoral fellowship in Bioinformatics with Prof. Deborah Mackay in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton.

Qualifications

FHEA, Academic Practice, University of Southampton 2020

PhD in Genetics and Genomic Biology, University of Leicester 2019

MSc, Clinical Immunology, University of Babylon 2011

BSc, Biological Sciences, University of Babylon 2007

Career History

Research Fellow: Analysing genomic data from 100,000 Genomes Project, identifying different kinds of genetic changes underpinning rare diseases, and developing analytical methods (2019-present)

Bioinformatics Intern: analysing whole exome sequence (WES) data from soft tissue sarcoma from patients (2018-2019)