Bioinformatics Team

Teresa Bucho | Biomedical Engineer/ Deep Learning

Mrs Bucho is a Biomedical Engineer. After finishing her masters in Lisbon, she moved to Amsterdam to pursue a PhD at the department of Radiology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. During her PhD, she analysed the limitations of current response assessment criteria to treatment in solid tumors (RECIST) and explored how ML/DL could be used to overcome some of these limitations. Specifically, she worked on a model to estimate the entire tumor burden of a patient from CT scans and on a model to track cancer lesions longitudinally between baseline and follow-up scans. Currently she is working on exploring how imaging and deep learning can be incorporated into the projects and its added value.

Edward Post | Molecular Biology

Started as a research technician for the molecular pathology at the Erasmus MC, designing sequencing assays to improve cancer diagnostics. He then joined thromboDx, a startup focused on a pancancer detection assay using platelet derived RNA. After 8 years of being a technician and slowly growing into the role of bioinformatician. Completing his PhD in Bioinformatics at the Amsterdam UMC. He specializes in liquid biopsies and bioinformatics, with most of my experience in the analysis of NGS data

Andrew Foster | Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

After completing his B.S. Biochemistry at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Andrew worked for several years as a Research Associate at an RNA genomics company in San Diego California. In 2021, he moved to Amsterdam to pursue his Masters in Bioinformatics at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Vrije University (VU). His Masters major thesis involved research into building interpretable neural networks with SOTA pruning algorithms, and his minor thesis involved using graph neural networks (GNNs) to identify repurposable drugs for HIV-1. He currently works as a Bio Data Scientist at Renovator.AI, specializing in explainable deep learning for cancer detection.

Khashayar Roohollahin, PhD| Molecular Geneticist

Mr Roohollahi completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Genetics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and his Master of Science degree in Genetic Counseling from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has recently completed his PhD, with a focus on Translational Bioinformatics in heritable cancers at Amsterdam UMC. He is experienced in bioinformatics data analysis and cancer genomics, including next-generation sequencing, statistical analysis, data modeling, and machine learning. He possesses programming skills in R, Bash, and Python.