Bakgrunn
Rafi is the Group Leader of the strategic research group at INN - Bioinformatics and Biodiscovery. He was part of the research group, which won the INN Research Prize in 2018.
Rafi is the project leader for two Research Council of Norway (RCN) projects ( AMR-Diag and ABR-Diag) and an RFFI project ( Rapid-AMR) on novel diagnostics for antibiotic resistance and is the WP leader for several RCN, RFFI, and Helse Sør Øst funded projects. He is part of the Leader group for the recently funded RCN project Network for One Health Resistome Surveillance ( NORSE). He is the leader of the work package "BUILDING EXPERTISE ON RESISTOME SURVEILLANCE AND DIAGNOSTICS".
He was nominated in 2020 by RCN to the Management Committee of European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST - https://www.cost.eu/.). He is the Co-WP leader for Industry Contact WP in the EUVEN COST Action.
He is affiliated to Nor-OpenScreen (the Norwegian node of the EU-Openscreen infrastructure project) via an MoU with Prof. Kjetil Tasken, Biotechnology Centre, University of Oslo/Oslo University Hospital (OUS).
Detailed information about - publications and projects.
Associate Editor- BMC Bioinformatic (Level 2 journal in Norway)
Editorial Board - MDPI Biology, and Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
The AMR-Diag project and Rafi have received good media attention. Please read here more about it
NRK Dagsrevyen
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/201911/NNFA19111419/avspiller
On the front page of NRK
https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/norsk-antibiotika-forskning-kan-redde-tusenvis-av-liv-1.14779014
News in Hamar Arbeiderblad (subscription needed)
Brief CV
Education Profile
1996 - 2000 Bachelor of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, Delhi, India
2000 - 2001 Master of Science in Bioinformatics, University of Exeter, UK
2004 - 2008 Ph.D. Bioinformatics & Drug Discovery, University of Tromsø, Norway
Work Experience
2018 - Till Date Associate Professor, The Arctic University of Tromsø (UiT), Tromsø, Norway
2016 - Till Date Associate Professor, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Hamar, Norway
2017 - Expert reviewer for EU H2020 grant applications
2013 - 2015 Leader New Molecule Profiling, Open Innovation, AstraZeneca, Molndal, Sweden
2011 - 2013 Senior Research Scientist, Medivir AB, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 - 2013 Project Leader, Antibiotic Resistance, Medivir AB, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 - 2011 Post Doc Drug Discovery and Design, Norwegian Structural Biology Centre, University of Tromsø, Norway
2002 - 2004 Research Scientist, Team Leader, Accerlys Inc., Banglore, India
Current Students
PostDoc
2020-2023
Abdolrahman
2018-2021
Ekaterina Avershina
PhD
2018 - 2021
Yusuf Khan
2020 - 2024
Line Strand Karlsholm (at IKM, UiT)
2021 - 2024
To be hired (Q2 21)
To be hired (Q3 21)
Researcher
Stephan Frye
Master (M. Sc 1 year project) - Current
Mukund Joshi
Ahmed Mostafa
Barsha Bhattarai
Master (M. Sc 1 year project) - Past (2016 onwards)
Lana Kragulj, Narayan Prasad Koirala, Prabin Bhandari, Elizabeth Wirsiy, Valentina Krivenjeva, Ewelina Rojek, Mithlesh Kumar Ray, Roshan Mandal, Bijay Thapa, Sanjeev Shakya, Helene Bouras, Ambreen Kauser
Erasmus EU Exchange Students (B.Sc 3-6 months project) - Past (2016 onwards)
Ewelina Rojek (Poland), Mikolaj Kozlowski (Poland), Paulina Borowiec (Poland), Claudia Lopez (Spain)
Rafi in Media
AMR-Diag project mentioned as a is a defining characteristic of INN University.
News about new project funding from RCN on ABR
Talk at Forkningsdagene on Antibiotic Resistance (2017) ;
Talk at Forkningsdagene on Antibiotic Resistance (2018)
Rafi in NRK news from (skip to time 1:20)
Ekspertområder
- Anitbiotic Resistance
- Bioinformatics
- Big Data Analysis
- Biotechnology
- Drug Discovery
- Genomics
- Next Generation Sequencing