Bio
Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow. The Institute of Cancer Research, UK (2023 - Present)
- Senior Researcher. Gyeongsang National University, South Korea (2021 - 2023)
Education
- PhD. Gyeongsang National University - 2021
- MS. Gyeongsang National University - 2018
- MBBCh. Cairo University - 2014
- Lots of online courses
Awards & Fellowships
- Fellowship. Center for Human Resource Development in Bio-medicine (2021 - 2022)
- Young Scientist Program Award. FAOBMB (2021)
- Young Scientist Program Award. KSBMB (2020 & 2021)
- Young Pioneer Research Award. Gyeongsang National University (2018 & 2019)
Interests
- Cancer genomics
- Drug discovery and repurposing
- Regulation of gene expression
- Autophagy in development and disease
Projects
Task specialization in evolving cancer cells
Studying task specialization and trade-offs in evolving cancer cells.
Perturbing biological networks in cancer cell lines
Studying causal biological networks and their perturbation using existing biological knowledge and data.
Transcriptional regulation of RKIP in cancer
Deciphering the regulatory circuits responsible for RKIP loss in different cancer cell models.
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Publications
Cancer cells forgo translating mRNA transcribed from genes of nonspecialized tasks
Mahmoud Ahmed, Trang Minh Pham, Hyun Joon Kim, Deok Ryong Kim
FEBS Open Bio, n/a
Trang Minh Pham, Mahmoud Ahmed, Trang Huyen Lai, Md Entaz Bahar, Jin Seok Hwang, Rizi Firman Maulidi, Quang Nhat Ngo, Deok Ryong Kim
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 25, 2024
Editorial: Opportunities and challenges in reusing public genomics data
Mahmoud Ahmed, Deok Ryong Kim
Frontiers in Pharmacology, vol. 14, 2023
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Posts
Public data for the public good
The human genome project galvanized the scientific community around an ambitious goal. It produced several crucial discoveries, and a new era of research began. For the first time, it became possible to estimate the number of human genes and compile a ...
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The evolutionary war — how to beat cancer in its own game
Cancer evolves. That much is known and agreed upon. Researchers still, however, debate the detailed picture of how cancer came to be and why it still plages our species is subject to debate. Studying cancer through an evolutionary lens could provide an...
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Gene expression adaptation in yeast, mice, and humans
Coding vs. non-coding variants Mutations produce novelty. The kind of novel variants on which selection acts. These variants fall within two broad categories depending on location in the genome: protein-coding and regulatory sequences. The former pro...
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