AHMAD ELTAHLAWY

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Research Interests: pathways networks analysis, systems pharmacology, single cell pharmacology. General Interests: social and economic data, digital therapeutics. Work Experience:

Sep 2019 – present: Graduate Research Assistant at Single Cell Sequencing Core, School of Medicine, Boston University. Supervisor: Joshua Campbell, PhD.

Curation of data pipelines on high performance computing clusters. Analysis of scRNA-seq by Seurat package and reporting. Improving SingleCellTK package for single cell analysis. Participation in research.

Oct 2009 – Aug 2018: Biopharmaceuticals Control Analyst, The Egyptian Drug Authority.

- Analysis of biopharmaceuticals at registration stage, and before every new patch release.

- Preparation of validation reports for pharmaceuticals in accordance to national regulations and pharmacopoeias.

- Forensic Analysis of claimed fraud pharmaceutical products.

- Collection and reading of research articles on products.

- Revision of products registration dossiers.

-Research assistant for the faculty in the department.

- Development and modification of analysis methods.

- HPLC unit officer in the department.

- ELISA unit officer in the department.

- Reviewing specifications for supply tenders of laboratory equipment, kits and reagents.

- Training officer for undergraduates and graduates on laboratory techniques.

- Evaluation of toxicity at the cellular level and genotoxicity. Jan 2014 – Sep 2014: Research Assistant, American University in Cairo. Research assistant in university startup. Standardization of oligonucleotide coupled nanoparticles as diagnostics for HCV. Nov 2006 – September 2009: Retail Pharmacist, Elnayeb Pharmacy, Egypt. Sep 2004: Clinical Training for Pharmacists (Clinical Pharmacology), Bolak Hospital, Egypt. Aug 2004: Internship, Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS Egypt) factory. Education:

September 2018- Sep 2020: MSc. in Bioinformatics, School of Engineering, Boston University. Full scholarship from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Scholarship proposal: development of customized tools and network analysis of researches in local institute for cost reduction and decision-making support.

April 2016: Graduate Master’s Courses in Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Benha University. January 2013: Graduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Laser Applications, Laser Institute, Cairo. June 2012: Graduate Diploma in Applied Microbiology, Benha University, Egypt. August 2012: Français niveau neuvième (French 9th

level), Institut Francais, Cairo.

November 2007: Non-degree Courses in Photobiology and Photochemistry, LASER Institute, Egypt. September 2000 - June 2006: Bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tanta University Parallel Activities:

Winter 2019: Programming workshops in Python, R, machine learning, at MIT. Summer 2019: Quantitative Sciences Hackathon & Conference Presentation at Novartis Biomedical Research Institute

(NIBR).

Project: mining drug targets from CRISPR and shRNA data. Supervisor: Java Golji, Joshua Korn, VivekSagar KR. Perturbagen analysis for drug targets mining by supervised and unsupervised approaches. Quality control comparison of datasets from the different techniques. Prediction of perturbagen from baseline.

Winter 2020: Hands-on CRISPR Winter Course, at MIT. Winter 2020: Deep learning Winter Course, at MIT.

Winter 2020: Image analysis workshop, at MIT.

Computational Skills:

Python (Numpy, Pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Scikit-learn, data analysis, tools development and backend programming). R (Statistical analysis, data wrangling, machine learning, package programming). MATLAB (machine learning modelling).

SQL, R shiny, JavaScript, HTML, AJAX, jQuery, CSS (development of databases and UI). Unix environment computing clusters, Bash Scripting. Visual Basic.

Java, C++.

Laboratory Skills: ELISA, HPLC, GC, PCR, Blotting, Cell lines, flow cytometry, Microscopy, CRISPR, Microarray, RNA-seq, Dealing with experimental mice and rats, Know-how of higher techniques. Hobbies: reading in economics and sociology, translation of articles to enrich the Arabic content on Wikipedia, cycling and classic guitar.

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