Dharmesh D Bhuva

Dr Dharmesh D Bhuva is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow (EL1) at the Frazer Institute, University of Queensland. His research focuses on systems biology approaches to understand gene regulation and signaling in health, disease, and development, with an emphasis on spatial transcriptomics and computational methods for molecular data analysis. He completed his PhD in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne (2020), developing novel methods for cancer systems biology. Bhuva has secured over $3.25M in funding, including NHMRC and MRFF grants, and developed widely used bioinformatics tools (e.g., vissE, mastR) with over 160,000 downloads.

Research Interests
His work spans computational biology, spatial transcriptomics, and bioinformatics tool development. Key areas include:

• Normalization of spatial molecular datasets
• Gene expression analysis in cancer systems
• Functional enrichment visualization (vissE)
• Molecular signatures in SARS-CoV-2 infection

Grants & Awards

• NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellowship (EL1)
• MRFF Grant Recipient

Advising & Mentorship

Current PhD student supervisor; co-supervised 2 successful MSc Bioinformatics students. Delivered computational biology workshops (e.g., WEHI Masterclass 2021, University of Melbourne).

Labs & Collaborations
Associated with the Frazer Institute and the South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute (SAiGENCI). Collaborates widely on projects involving spatial transcriptomics, cancer systems biology, and infectious disease genomics.