I am a PhD student at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, with a medical background. After obtaining my medical degree at Suez Canal University in Egypt, I moved to the Netherlands to do my Master's in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.
During my Master’s, I worked on mapping eQTLs and fine-mapping causal variants of Coeliac disease using Mendelian Randomisation methods.Currently, my main focus is on understanding the functional consequences of genetic variation, with a more recently developed interest in autoimmune diseases. In particular, I integrate genotype, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and other type of molecular dataset to understand the downstream consequences of genetic variation.