About Rozaimi Razali
Rozaimi Razali is currently an Assistant Professor at Qatar University. He received his PhD from the Imperial College London, United Kingdom. Previously, he was a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at Sidra Medicine, Qatar working on population genetics, transcriptomics and genome assembly of the Qatar population. Prior to that, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, where he led the de-novo genome assembly project of the tomato genome and metagenomics and antimicrobial bioprospecting of the Red Sea. Before joining academia, he was a Bioinformatics Manager of a biotechnology company, Sengenics, where he led the bioinformatics team in the analysis of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. Currently, at Qatar University, he is leading key research to study the genetics of diseases where he uses ancient DNA and population genetics to improve precision medicine efforts.
10/2021-CURRENT: QATAR UNIVERSITY, QATAR : ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
- Ancient DNA of the Middle Eastern population
- Population genetics of the Qatar population
- Microbiome of the Qatar population
- De-novo genome assembly of important mammalian in Qatar
- Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare
01/2018-10/2021: SIDRA MEDICINE, QATAR : SENIOR POST DOCTORAL FELLOW
- Population genetics of Qatari population
- Transcriptomics profile of Qatari population
- De-novo genome assembly of Qatari population specific reference genome.
- Identification of sequence and structural variations of neurodevelopmental disorders in Qatari patients..
07/2015- Current : KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KAUST): POST DOCTORAL FELLOW
- Metagenome assembly – Sediment metagenome of the Red Sea
- Bioinformatics – Development of bacterial promoter prediction
- Genome assembly – De-novo assembly of S. pimpinellifolium
- Genome assembly – Re-assembly of rice genome project from the
- 3000 rice genome project
- Human Variation – Development of novel pathogenic variation
- using combination of phenotypic and genotype data
- Identification of putative transmembrane proteins involved in salinity tolerance in Chenopodium quinoa
- Solanum Knowledgebase System
01/2013-02/2015 : SENGENICS : BIOINFORMATICS MANAGER
- Genome assembly – De-novo genome assembly of Angiostrongylus cantonensis
- Genome assembly – De-novo genome assembly of Brugia pahangi
- Protein array – Autoantibody profile of patients infected with knowlesi malaria
- Bioinformatics – Meta-analysis of oral carcinogenesis
- Array comparative genomic hybridization – Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- Human Variation Analysis – A whole genome analyses of genetic variants in two Kelantan Malay individuals
- Exome sequencing – Non-Syndromic Pheochromocytoma
- Exome sequencing – Analysed over 600 exome sequencing data using an in-house pipeline that I developed myself
- Genome assembly – De-novo Aedes albopictus
- RNA Seq assembly – Prostate cancer
- RNA Seq assembly – Breast cancer
- Protein array – Oral cancer
- Protein array – Obesity
08/2007-11/2008 : GENSEQ : BIOINFORMATICIAN
- Developed algorithms for health risk predictions, disease risk predictions and ancestry predictions for MyFamilyHealth.com.
- Developed and maintained the genetic database that runs MyFamilyHealth.com.
03/2006-08/2007 : INFOVALLEY : BIOINFORMATICIAN
- Performed SNPs data curation/mining and SNPs selection/prioritization
- Involved in the administration side of the project
