Nestoras Karathanasis

Nestoras Karathanasis is Teaching Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson University's College of Life Science. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Crete in miRNA-mRNA interactions in cancer and previously served as Lead Bioinformatician at Miroculus.

His research focuses on precision medicine through statistical omics integration, miRNA tool development, and machine learning applications in oncology. He developed graduate courses in computational skills, data visualization, and transcriptomics analysis. His machine learning team ranked 6th in the DREAM Single Cell Transcriptomics Challenge (2018), and he shares the TJU Data Science Award (2019) for computational medicine contributions.