Nestoras Karathanasis
Teaching Assistant Professor
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Dr. Nestoras Karathanasis is a teaching assistant professor at the College of Life Science at Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) in Philadelphia. He received his PhD from the University of Crete, Greece in the field of "miRNA-mRNA interactions related with cancer" in 2013 and in 2015 was appointed Lead Bioinformatician at Miroculus company in San Francisco before joining TJU.
He has an active interest in precision medicine and his work focuses on the statistical integration of different omics data, the development of miRNA mapping tools and apply machine learning algorithms to address biological questions in key areas such as cancer. As a teaching assistant professor, he has developed three graduate-level courses on computational skill acquisition, (i.e. R programming, data visualization, and transcriptomics data analysis). In 2018, he created and led a machine learning team from the Computational Medicine Center of TJU in participating in the DREAM Single Cell Transcriptomics challenge. His team ranked 6th place among 49 participating teams. As of 2019, he is co-recipient of the TJU Data Science Award for his work as a member of the Computational Medicine Center team.