Meet the Volume Editors

Kais Ghedira is a bioinformatician at Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia. He has been a principal investigator/co-investigator/WP leader for several national and international grants. He has contributed to building capacities in bioinformatics at the national and international levels. He is an active member of the Genome Tunisia Collaborative Alliance (GTCA) which aims to sequence Tunisian genomes to improve disease diagnostics in Tunisian

patients. He is contributing to implementing genomic medicine in Tunisia, both the region and the continent. Dr. Ghedira is the author/co-author of more than fifty publications in highly ranked journals and is co-editor of several books. He is mainly interested in functional genomics, multiomics data integration, network generation and analysis, NGS data analysis, host-pathogen interaction study, and databases and webtools development.

Yosr Hamdi is a biologist and researcher at Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia. She is a specialist in cancer genomics and precision oncology. Dr. Hamdi started in the field of human genetics in 2004 with the Human Genome Project. Then, she obtained a master's degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Canada. In 2009, she joined the Genomics Center of the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier

de l´Université Laval (CRCHUL) where she obtained a Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine. Dr. Hamdi is now leading the Genome Tunisia Collaborative Alliance (GTCA) and the PerMediNA Consortium (Personalised Medicine in North Africa) to continue the investigations of cancer genomics in African populations as well as implement genomic medicine and precision oncology in North Africa.

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