Applied Bioinformatics MSc - full and part-time

Course Team

Students on the Applied Bioinformatics MSc course are taught by a team of leading academics from Cranfield Health, together with our hospital partners, researchers, professional healthcare providers and industry specialists. We pride ourselves on the quality of our teaching staff, as well as our small class ratios (we achieved the top staff-to-student ratio in the UK in 2008, according to the Times Higher-QS World University rankings).

Applied Bioinformatics Course Director 

Applied Bioinformatics Course Director is Research Fellow Dr Fady Mohareb, a member of Cranfield Health's Bioinformatics group. His primary research interest is the application of the latest Web technologies to facilitate data integration in systems biology research. This involves the development of Web-based interfaces for experimental data repositories, development of interactive web-based tools for data visualisation and exploratory analysis. Fady is currently working on the FP7-funded project Symbiosis-EU and his duties include:

  • Development of Entity Attribute Value models (EAV) for managing experiment data.
  • Design and implementation of data pre-processing software
  • Development of mathematical models for prediction of freshness in food products
  • Development of classification models for predicting spoilage in meat products stored under different storage conditions and temperature.
  • Development of the Symbiosis Online Research Framework (SORF) for online data storage, sharing and analysis.

Fady gained his degree in pharmaceutical sciences in 2002 from Cairo University. Shortly after, he joined the Technology Transfer department at Vacsera Co. for Biopharmaceutical Products in Egypt. In 2004, he joined Cranfield University to complete an MSc in Bioinformatics. He continued working at the Bioinformatics group at Cranfield Health as a Research Assistant then Research Fellow, working on the FP7-funded Symbiosis-EU project. In 2008, he was awarded a PhD under the supervision of Dr Conrad Bessant developing bioinformatics tools to facilitate Systems Biology research.

Fady manages the overall Applied Bioinformatics course and lectures on most modules, arranges the research projects.

He can be contacted at f.mohareb@cranfield.ac.uk or by telephone on +44 (0) 7775 884779. 

Course Team

Remaining modules will be presented by key teaching staff within Cranfield Health:

• Dr Conrad Bessant, Senior Lecturer in Chemometrics & Bioinformatics
• Dr Michael Cuachi, Research Fellow

In addition, students benefit from a programme of visiting lecturers from industry and hospitals. In recent years, students have been addressed by professionals from GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, UCL, Wellcome Trust Sanger List, Cambridge Centre for Protemics, Quotient Bioresearch and EMBL-EBI.