Sungkyunkwan University
Seoul, Republic of Korea
Dr. Nameeta Shah is a research scientist at Sungkyunkwan University and a visiting scientist at the Samsung Genome Institute in Seoul. Before that, she was the Principal investigator of the Neuro-Oncology Research Program, at Mazumdar Shaw Center for Translational Research (MSCTR), Narayana Health, Bangalore, India for five years. She received her B.E. from Gujarat University, India, and M.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis in 2006. Her Ph.D. thesis, “Integrated visualization and computational methods to develop a system to infer gene regulation from large-scale genomics data” led to her interest in cancer research. She received her postdoctoral research experience at Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Ann Arbor. The focus of her work was high throughput screening of gene fusions using large-scale genomics and Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH) data which led to the identification of ETV5 fusions in prostate cancer. She worked as a bioinformatics scientist for a brain tumor research lab in the USA for seven years where she established the computational infrastructure and clinical and genomic databases. During that period, she led the Ivy Glioblastoma Atlas Project effort from the Swedish Neuroscience Institute in collaboration with the team at Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA. Currently, she is working on computational modeling and engineering of three-dimensional in vitro systems mimicking glioblastoma anatomic features.
