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.
(Archived) Regulation of autophagy in development and disease
Studying the regulation of autophagy in development (adipocyte differentiation) and disease (cancer).
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Publications
Maximizing the utility of public data
Mahmoud Ahmed, Hyun Joon Kim, Deok Ryong Kim
Frontiers in Genetics, vol. 14, Frontiers Media SA, 2023 Mar
Tissue-specific gene expression in obese hyperglycemic mice
Mahmoud Ahmed, Omar Elashkar, Jong Youl Lee, Eun Ae Jeong, Kyung Eun Kim, Gu Seob Roh, Deok Ryong Kim
All Life, vol. 15(1), Taylor & Francis, 2022, pp. 555-561
Disruption of cancer cell functions by task-specific drug perturbations
Mahmoud Ahmed, Deok Ryong Kim
Frontiers in Pharmacology, vol. 13, 2022
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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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