معرفی
Fursham Hamid is a Lecturer in Bioinformatics at King's College London, affiliated with the Developmental Neurobiology Department within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. His research focuses on understanding gene regulation mechanisms underlying neuronal development, particularly post-transcriptional processes like alternative splicing. He develops computational methods integrating AI/ML and statistical approaches to analyze multi-omics data, including whole-brain and single-neuron datasets.
Key collaborations include work with Professors Eugene Makeyev, Oscar Marín, and Beatriz Rico, exploring topics such as RNA splicing in neurodevelopment and cancer genetics. His lab, the Hamid Lab, emphasizes computational transcriptomics and has developed tools like the factR R package for transcriptome annotation.
Recent projects involve investigating NMD pathways in neuronal development, somatic mutations in cancer, and the role of spliceosome proteins in axonal transcriptomes. His work contributes to Sustainable Development Goals related to health and innovation.
- Grants and Funding: MRC, BBSRC, Leverhulme Trust projects on neurodevelopmental mechanisms and cancer genetics.
- Labs/Teams: Head of the Hamid Lab, part of the Building Brains Centre for Developmental Neurobiology.
