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Dr. Puthen Veettil Jithesh
Associate Dean for Education/Student Affairs
Phone
50 632 102Office location
B-137, First Floor, LAS (Penrose) Building
Dr. Puthen Veettil Jithesh
Associate Dean for Education/Student Affairs
Educational Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics
Advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics
Entity
College of Health and Life Sciences
Biography
Dr. Puthen Veettil Jithesh holds a Master’s degree in Microbiology, an Advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics, and received his PhD in Bioinformatics from Queen’s University Belfast, UK. He has over 20 years of research and development experience in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at several prestigious institutes in India, Qatar, and Russell Group research universities in the UK.
Before moving to Qatar, he was the Head of Bioinformatics for the Oxford Translational Molecular Diagnostic Centre at the University of Oxford and held honorary appointments with the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics
Queen’s University Belfast; Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
2010
Advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics
University of Pune (Now Savitribai Phule Pune University); Maharashtra, India
1999
Master of Science (MSc)
Microbiology; Mahatma Gandhi University; Kerala, India
1994
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Botany; University of Calicut; Kerala, India
1992
- Bioinformatics and computational biology tool development and applications in translational research
- Pharmacogenomics for the prediction of response and toxicity to drugs
- Identification of causal variants in rare genetic diseases
- Machine learning and data science toward the implementation of precision medicine
Associate Professor
College of Health and Life Sciences; Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
2020 - Present
Associate Professor (Adjunct)
College of Health and Life Sciences; Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
2018 - 2020
Principal Investigator
Translational Bioinformatics; Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar
2015 – 2019
Head of Bioinformatics
Translational Molecular Diagnostic Centre; University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2014 – 2015
Senior Bioinformatician (Bioinformatics Lead)
Institute of Translational Medicine; University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
2010 – 2014
Co-Founder & Director
HealthIntec Limited, Belfast, United Kingdom
2008 – 2012
Senior Research Fellow (Bioinformatics)
Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology; Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom
2006 – 2010
Bioinformatician; Belfast e-Science Centre
Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom
2003 – 2005
Member Technical Staff (MTS) Bioinformatics
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, India
1999 – 2003
Senior Project Assistant (Bioinformatics)
Bioinformatics Centre; Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India
1999 - 1999
Lecturer in Microbiology
School of Medical Education; Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India
1996 - 1998
- Clinical Characteristics and Genomics of Permanent Neonatal Diabetes in The State of Qatar; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine; 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1002/mgg3.753)
- Integrated Omics Profiling Reveals Novel Patterns of Epigenetic Programming in Cancer-Associated Myofibroblasts; Carcinogenesis 2019, 40(4):500–512 (doi:10.1093/carcin/bgz001)
- Allen WL, Dunne PD, McDade S, Scanlon E, Loughrey M, Coleman H, McCann C, McLaughlin K, Nemeth Z, Syed N, Jithesh PV, Arthur K, Wilson R, Coyle V, McArt D, Murray G, Samuel L, Nuciforo P, Jimenez J, Argiles G, Dienstmann R, Tabernero J, Messerini L, Nobili S, Mini E, Sheahan K, Ryan E, Johnston PG, Van Schaeybroeck S, Lawler M, Longley DB
- From Genomes to Genomic Medicine - Enabling Personalised and Precision Medicine in the Middle East; Personalized Medicine; 1 Sep 2017 (doi:10.2217/pme-2017-0048)
- Accelerating next generation sequencing data analysis with system level optimizations; Scientific Reports 2017, 7:9058 (doi:10.1038/s41598-017-09089-1)
- Depletion of human DNA in clinical specimens for detection of pathogens by shotgun metagenomic sequencing; Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2016, 54(4):919-27
- Temple-Baraitser Syndrome and Zimmermann-Laband Syndrome: one clinical entity?;BMC Medical Genetics; 2016, 17(1):42
- ADAM17-Dependent c-MET-STAT3 Signaling Mediates Resistance to MEK Inhibitors in KRAS Mutant Colorectal Cancer; Cell Reports; 2014, 7(6):1940-55
- The Epigenetic Landscape of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma; British Journal of Cancer; 2013, 108:370-379
- GeneGrid: architecture, implementation and application; Journal of Grid Computing; 2006, 4:209-222
- Three copies of four interferon receptor genes underlie mucocutaneous candidiasis and auto-immune thyroiditis in patients with Down Syndrome. Journal of Clinical Immunology (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-020-00803-9)
- Genome sequencing unveils mutational landscape of the familial Mediterranean fever: Potential implications of IL33/ST2 signalling. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.15701)
- 2014-2015; Member of Congregation; University of Oxford, UK
- 2010; Best Poster Award; Irish Association for Cancer Research (IACR); Galway, Republic of Ireland
- 2006-2010; PhD Scholarship; Queen's University Belfast; Belfast, UK
- 2001; Best Poster Award; Symposium on Perspectives in Genome Analysis; Hyderabad, India
- 1998-1999; Merit scholarship for Advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics; Government of India; India