Mehdi Pirooznia MD, MSc, PhD

Mehdi Pirooznia, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology core at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute at the NIH (NHLBI/NIH). Dr. Pirooznia supervises and spearheads this effort by providing bioinformatics analysis support for intramural scientists in life sciences, clinical, and translational research. In particular, his group specializes in analyses pertaining to next-generation sequencing and biomedical informatics in genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, and disease biomarkers. Towards this end, Dr. Pirooznia's team takes an integrative approach to incorporate site-specific sequence variations changes with gene expression and proteomics data to investigate molecular mechanisms underlying disease progression and treatment responses.

Dr. Pirooznia is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he served for 8 years as a faculty prior to joining the NIH in 2016, and provided leadership, scientific direction and was responsible for implementing the high-performance computational laboratory and bioinformatics system.

Dr. Pirooznia serves as an editor and reviewer for several scientific journals such as Bioinformatics, Nature Scientific Data, BMC Bioinformatics, and Human Genomics. He is also a member of The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), and the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).