Bilde av Rakaee, Mehrdad
Bilde av Rakaee, Mehrdad
Associate Professor II Department of Medical Biology mehrdad.rakaee@uit.no +4777625237 Tromsø You can find me here

Mehrdad Rakaee


Job description

 

  • Member of the Translational Cancer Research Group.
  • Supervising PhD and postdoc students.
  • Extensive experience in experimental, statistical, and computational analysis of cancer, with research expertise in biomarker development, validation, clinical implementation, clinicogenomics, and AI-based pathology.
  • Full-time position as leading researcher at the Department of Clinical Pathology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, responsible for implementing, analyzing, and interpreting next-generation sequencing (NGS) in routine practice. I act as genomicist in the national infrastructure for precision diagnostics in cancer treatment (InPred), IMPRESS-Norway, and TNM-I clinical studies for personalized medicine.
  • Part-time position as a senior researcher at the Åslaug Helland Lab, Cancer Genetics Department, Institute of Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital (OUS), tasked with the development of artificial intelligence-based tools as predictive biomarkers for precision immunotherapy in lung cancer.
  • Affiliated collaborator with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
  • Honorary and visiting researcher at Imperial College London, UK.

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Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Digital Pathology
  • Biomarkers for Immuno-Oncology (IO)
  • Tumor Immunity and Genomics

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MH øst L7.127


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