Indranil Sinha

Indranil Sinha is a Senior Bioinformatics Research Specialist at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. He is affiliated with The Systems Virology Lab and contributes to the EU-funded COMBAT project, targeting the global dengue epidemic through bioinformatics analysis.

• PhD in Epigenetics and Bioinformatics, Karolinska Institutet (2010)
• Postdoctoral experience at Department of Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet
• Current role (since 2025) involves data management and analysis for virology research

His research integrates bioinformatics with diverse fields including:

• Epigenetics
• Single-cell sequencing
• RNA-seq
• Childhood cancer research
• Tumor heterogeneity
• Genomic evolution
• Computational biology

Recent publications focus on:

• Chromatin dynamics in viral response
• Alternative splicing in pediatric leukemia
• Genomic evolution of medulloblastoma
• Monocyte differentiation in inflammation
• Host transcriptome profiling for infection diagnostics
• Estrogen receptor dimerization in cancer

Scientific contributions span collaborations across multiple institutions, with teaching experience in translational oncology, genetics, and bioinformatics courses (2013–2024).