Bio

Mesude Bicak, PhD is a Senior Scientist in Genetics and Genomic Sciences and a member of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai in the Ben Glicksberg Lab . Dr. Bicak has extensive experience in utilizing bioinformatics approaches to couple multi-omic data to forward personalized medicine. She completed her PhD in Systems Biology at the University of Sheffield, UK in 2011 and joined the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK as a bioinformatician and served as its Bioinformatics Analysis Facility Coordinator for 3 years. She then joined the University of Oxford, UK as Senior Researcher to lead the Ocean Sampling Day global sampling campaign, and briefly held the Data Analytics Associate Director title at the Oxford Biodynamics Plc, UK. She joined Mount Sinai in 2016 and spent the last 4 years specializing in prostate cancer functional genomics. Her current primary interests are investigating viral networks as well as drug repurposing in Alzheimer's Disease.