Visiting Professor, Dr. Mohammad Asif Khan
Dr Khan is interested in the area of biological data warehousing and applications of data science to the study of immune responses, vaccines, viruses, venom toxins, drug design, and disease biomarkers. He has thus far published more than 75
research/review journal articles, conference articles/abstracts, book chapters, books, and over 58 posters presented at numerous scientific platforms. Over the years, he has developed several novel bioinformatics methodologies, tools, and specialized databases, and currently has three patents granted. He is also heavily involved in imparting bioinformatics/data science education to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Besides a heavy focus on research and education, he is particular in giving back to the community through involvement as a reviewer for numerous journals, conferences, and funding agencies, and has donned various important roles in the organization of several local and international bioinformatics conferences, meetings and workshops.
Affiliations:
Beykoz Institute of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Bezmialem Vakıf University, Turkey
School of Data Sciences, Perdana University, Malaysia
Education:
2006-2010 PhD, National University of Singapore
2003-2005 MSc, National University of Singapore
1999-2003 BSc, National University of Singapore
Research Interests:
ViralInformatics, ChemInformatics-based drug design, Disease Biomarker Informatics, Platform development for biology, VaccineInformatics, ImmunoInformatics, ClinicalInformatics, Data warehousing for biology
Awards / Honors:
Meritorious Service Award by APBioNET, in recognition of commendable service provided to APBioNET and InCoB on an on-going basis – InCoB 2016; Sept 21-23, 2016; Singapore.
Best Paper Award (Gold; BMC Medical Genomics), 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2017), Shenzhen, China, Sept 20-22, 2017.
Best Paper Award (Gold; BMC Genomics), 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2017), Shenzhen, China, Sept 20-22, 2017.
Certificate of Appreciation in recognition for outstanding contribution as the organizing committee for Asia Pacific Research Platform (APRP) Working Group at Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN): connecting data, application and people. APAN48, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 24 July 2019.
International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers, Program by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). https://twitter.com/i/status/1280505311007256582
Publications (selected):
Işık EB, Brazas MD, Schwartz R, Gaeta B, Palagi PM, van Gelder CWG, Suravajhala P, Singh H, Morgan SL, Zahroh H, Ling M, Satagopam VP, McGrath A, Nakai K, Tan TW, Gao G, Mulder N, Schönbach C, Zheng Y, De Las Rivas J, Khan AM. Grand challenges in bioinformatics education and training. Nat Biotechnol. 2023 Aug;41(8):1171-1174. doi: 10.1038/s41587-023-01891-9. [Public link: https://rdcu.be/djhh8]. [*Corresponding author].
Raman HS, Tan S, August JT, Khan AM*. Dynamics of Influenza A virus (H5N1) protein sequence diversity. PeerJ. 2020, e7954 [*Corresponding author].
Suwinski P, Poh YM, Ling MHT, Ong CK, Khan AM* and Ong HS*. Advancing personalized medicine through the application of whole exome sequencing and big data analytics. Frontiers in Genetics. 2019, 10, 49. [*Co-Corresponding author].
Khan AM*, Hu Y, Miotto O, Thevasagayam NM, Sukumaran R, Raman HSA, Brusic V, Tan TW and August, JT. Analysis of Viral Diversity for Vaccine Target Discovery. BMC Med. Genomics. 2017. 10(4), 78. [*Corresponding author] [Award = Best Paper, Gold @ International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) 2017]
Lim WC and Khan AM*. Mapping HLA-A2, -A3, and -B7 supertype-restricted T-cell epitopes in ebolavirus proteome. BMC Genomics. 2018, 19 (1), 42. [*Corresponding author; Award = Best Paper, Gold @ International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) 2017]
Outlink (GScholar, AVESIS, or ORCID ID): http://bit.ly/khanam
Grants (Completed):
Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris, France; Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia; Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK); National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
Contact Info:
E-mail: makhan@bezmialem.edu.tr
