Team
We are a diverse multidisciplinary group comprised of members with diverse expertise, backgrounds and skills ranging from biology, genetics, medicine, health informatics, clinical bioinformatics, genetic epidemiology, public health, epidemiology, computational biology, to data science, computer science, engineering, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, big data, statistics and mathematics.

Professor Georgios Gkoutos PhD DIC FRSB FRSM
The group, located at the Institute of Translational Medicine, is led by Professor Georgios Gkoutos, who heads the ITM AI for Health Centre.
Prof Gkoutos holds the Chair of Clinical Bioinformatics, a joint appointment between the University of Birmingham Medical School and the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. He is a Faculty Affiliate Professor of Digital Health at Berkeley Lab, Director of the Centre for Health Data Science, Associate Director of Health Data Research UK, Director of the ITM AI for Health Centre, Co-Director of the Joint Research Institute for Health and BioMedical Informatics, Alan Turing Fellow and Fellow of the Robinson College University of Cambridge.
His main interests lie within the areas of clinical and biomedical informatics, health data science, multimodal multiomics integrative analytics, genetic epidemiology, public health, computational biology, artificial intelligence for health, and translational research aiming at the discovery of molecular origins of human disease and the development of novel disease diagnostic and intervention strategies.
Profiles
HDR Manager

Kevin Dunn
Fellows

Dr. Animesh Acharjee
Senior Research fellow

Dr.Furqan Aziz
Post-doctoral fellow

Dr. Andrey Barsky
Alan Turing Institute fellow

Dr. Tanmay Basu
Post-doctoral fellow

Dr. Saisakul Chernbumroong
Post-doctoral fellow

Dr. Andreas Karwath
Rutherford fellow

Dr. Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar
UKRI fellow

Dr. Patricia Rojas
Post-doctoral fellow

Dr. Luke Slater
Post-doctoral fellow

Dr. John Williams
Post-doctoral fellow

Dr. Yuanwei Xu
Post-doctoral fellow

Victor Cardoso
Research associate

Vartika Bisht
Research assistant

Dr.Xiaoxia Wang
Post-doctoral fellow

Laura Bravo
Post-doctoral fellow

Hui Yang
Post-doctoral fellow

Xin Guan
Post-doctoral fellow

Dominic Russ
Post-doctoral fellow

Vasilis Lenis

Niall Dune
Research Associate

Alexe Haywood
Post-doctoral fellow

Durga Parkhi
Post-doctoral fellow
PhD Students

Eslam Al-Hersh

Fatma Alqutami

Jie Wang

Simrat Gill

Rebecca Lee

Nabeela Shabbir Malik

Jemma Lucy Mytton

Samantha Pendleton

Cidra Hammoud

David Brind

Genevieve Monaghan

Ahmed K. Abou-Foul

Megan Parish

Kat Powezka

Alex Thorley

Arthur Alexander

Federica Merella
Clinical Fellows

Dino Motti
Public Health

Simrat Gill
Cardiovascular Sciences

Jie Wang
Cardiovascular Sciences

Nabeela Shabbir Malik
Surgery
MSc Students
Silver Makepeace Murnoe
Alexander Carberry
Sophie Russel
Katrina Nash
Winner Adegbuyi
Evie Monanghan
Vasileios Vasileiou
Roshan Shafiha
Basak Bahcivanci
Tolupe Balagon
Haoyu Wang
Alumni
Hanouf AlHattan
Alina Bazarova
Jun Chen
Faye Cleary
Lavanya Deenadayalu
Jamie Ferro
Vasilieios Kolias
Dino Motti
Archana Oates
Abdulelah Alneghaimish
Nouran Rehan
Fathy Shalaby
Konstantina Koukourikou
Joseph Larkman
Megan Jeniffer Murnoe
Funding
The group is currently involved in >£45M worth of grant funding.
Such revenue comes from a diversity of sources both nationally as well internationally.
Research Hubs
The group is current involved on a number of hubs. These include:
Clinical Trials
The group is current involved on a number of clinical trials. These include:
Therapies for Long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals: From symptoms, patient reported outcomes and immunology to targeted therapies (The TLC Study)
Tools
The group is actively developing numerous novel computational open source tools, some examples can be found in our group's github repository.
Affiliations
The group has been established both locally, nationally and internationally and is involved in either by the PI or co-I membership of Gkoutos in the formation and establishment of a number of local, national and international, clinical trials, consortia, centres and institutes.
Contact
Want to collaborate? Join our lab? Contact us!
email: g.gkoutos@gmail.com
Work Address
College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3882
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, B15 2TT, UK
Tel: +44 (0)121 371 8146