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Dr. Richard Thompson
Bioinformatics Specialist
Phone
+974 4454 0910Office location
First Floor, Segment 6, North Building, HBKU RDC, Education City North
Dr. Richard Thompson
Bioinformatics Specialist
Educational Qualifications
PhD Biostatistics and Virology
MSc Bioinformatics
Entity
Qatar Biomedical Research Institute
Divison
Diabetes Research Center
Biography
Dr. Richard Thompson received his Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science from King’s College London.During his studies, he spent a year in the Cancer Virology Team at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London.
Dr. Thompson developed an interest in computational biology, leading to the successful completion of his Master’s degree in Bioinformatics at Birkbeck College, London.This was followed by a doctorate in Biostatistics and Virology, during which he participated in the EuResist project.
In June 2012, Dr. Thompson joined Shafallah Medical Genetics Center as a Bioinformatics Analyst, continuing his work within the center through a merger with Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI).
- Development and application of machine learning algorithms to complex biomedical questions.
- Enabling the application of computational techniques to support the work carried out in the labs.
- Inter- Versus Intra-Host Sequence Diversity of pH1N1 and Associated Clinical Outcomes; Microorganisms, 8(1), 133.
- Validation of the Arabic version of the Social Communication Questionnaire; Autism Vol. 23(7) 1655–1662
- Development and application of an integrated allele-specific pipeline for methylomic and epigenomic analysis (MEA); BMC genomics 19 (1), 463
- Effects of Oxidative and Thermal Stresses on Stress Granule Formation in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; PLoS ONE 12 (7), e0182059
- Systematic identification of genomic markers of drug sensitivity in cancer cells; Nature 483 (7391), 570-575
- Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC): a resource for therapeutic biomarker discovery in cancer cell; Nucleic acids research 41 (D1), D955-D961