Mehran Karimzadeh's GitHub Page

I am currently a Senior Scientist at Exai Bio and am based in Seattle, WA.

 Previously, I was a CIHR post-doctoral fellow co-supervised by Dr. Hani Goodarzi at UCSF and Dr. Bo Wang at Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligene and University Health Network. I did my Ph.D. with Dr. Michael Hoffman at University of Toronto.  I am interested in developing deep learning models for detection of disease phenotypes using high-throughput genomic datasets.

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Select publications 

The list includes peer-reviewed as well as non-peer-reviewed items where Mehran is the first or co-first author

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    HPV Epigenomics
    Viral integration transforms chromatin to drive oncogenesis. bioRxiv 2021.
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    Methylome mappability
    Umap and Bismap: quantifying genome and methylome mappability. Nucleic Acids Research 2018.
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    Cancer aberration hubs
    Aberration hubs in protein interaction networks highlight actionable targets in cancer. Oncotarget 2018.

Latest Work

Recent publications

Experimental and natural evidence of SARS-CoV-2-infection-induced activation of type I interferon responses

Collaboration with Mossman lab, 2021

Massively multiplex single-molecule oligonucleosome footprinting

Collaboration with Ramani lab, 2020

Multiscale interactome analysis coupled with off-target drug predictions reveals drug repurposing candidates for human coronavirus disease

Collaboration with Cyclica and Ryerson, 2020–2021

The molecular consequences of androgen activity in the human breast

Collaboration with Knott lab, 2020–2022

Class presentations


Contact information

Email: mehran dot karimzadeh at uhnresearch dot ca