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Aidin Foroutan
Bioinformatics Research Scientist
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Contact Information
Aidin Foroutan
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Affiliations
Education
PhD – University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada MSc – University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada BSc – University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Mazandaran, Iran
Honors & Awards
- 2022-2023 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2022 Children’s Health Research Institute (CHRI) Postdoctoral Award
- 2019 Canadian Institute of Food Science & Technology Graduate Scholarship Trust
- 2017-2018 SM Blair scholarship and Research Allowance
- 2015-2017 Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) Graduate Student Scholarship
- 2015 Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) Bill Bridger Awards of Excellence
- 2012-2014 Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) Graduate Student Scholarship
Research Interests
I am a Bioinformatics Research Scientist with research interest in developing bioinformatics pipelines for the analysis of large “omics” datasets to uncover cell type-specific molecular mechanisms of childhood and adult cancers.
Towards this end, my research focuses on:
- Developing bioinformatics workflows for genomic variant discovery, interpretation, and prioritization related to germline cancer predisposition genes.
- Integrative analysis of multiple omics data to uncover mechanisms of cell type-specific gene dysregulation in cancers.