Principal Investigator

Dr Mohammad Mahdi Karimi

Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics

Mehdi leads the Dark Genome Cancer Biology & Bioinformatics group in the Comprehensive Cancer Centre at King’s College London. His research develops visual analytics and machine learning approaches for integrating multi-omics data, with the aim of finding diagnostic and therapeutic targets and building predictive models for haematological malignancies.

He trained in biomedical engineering at Tehran Polytechnic (BSc, 2002) and the University of Tehran (MSc, 2004), and completed a PhD in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada (2009). He was then an MSFHR Research Associate at the University of British Columbia, a Research Scientist at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, and Head of Bioinformatics at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences before joining King’s. He was one of the team leaders who developed the Epigenomic Data Coordination Centre for Canada.

Highlights

• Led the 2026 Blood Neoplasia study showing an endogenous retrovirus signature predicts induction chemotherapy failure in AML
• Team leader, Epigenomic Data Coordination Centre for Canada

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