Ali Masoudi-Nejad

Ali Masoudi-Nejad earned his Ph.D. in genomics under the supervision of Prof. Takashi Endo at Kyoto University (京都大学) in Japan. He then completed post-doctoral work in computational genomics at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee, Scotland and MRC-LMB in Cambridge, UK. He returned to Kyoto University for two consecutive post-docs in bioinformatics and systems biology with Prof. Minoru Kanehisa (金久 實), co-founder of The GenBank at NCBI and founder of the KEGG Database. In 2006, he returned to Iran and established the Laboratory of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (LBB) at the University of Tehran, where he is currently a full professor. He established the first Ph.D. curriculum in bioinformatics at the University of Tehran in 2006, and to date, it has produced over 100 graduates, many of whom have become successful junior researchers abroad or successfully integrated into the international research community. Professor Masoudi-Nejad has served as an editor and guest editor for several journals, including Seminar in Cancer Biology, Scientific Reports, and Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. His primary research interests include: • Computational systems biology • Computational cancer genomics • Deep learning application in medicine • Single-Cell analysis and network-based biomarker development • Digital pathology and omics integration • The role of the microbiome in disease • Multi-omics interaction networks and network biology • Drug repurposing and analysis of drug-target networks • Genome-scale analysis of non-coding RNA • Bioinformatics and algorithm development