Mohamed Helmy
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorMohamed Helmy is an interdisciplinary research scientist and adjunct professor with over a decade of experience at the intersection of systems biology, computational biology, and bioinformatics, currently working on vaccinology and infectious disease research in Saskatoon. He has led multi-omics and proteogenomics projects across academia and industry—developing GeneCloudOmics, multiple public databases, and novel methods such as “Once-Proteogenomics”—and has secured substantial grant funding and seed awards for alternative protein research. As a founder of a bioinformatics consultancy and former head of bioinformatics at BenchSci, he combines hands-on data engineering and pipeline design with team leadership that scaled a 3M+ product biological reagents database. His work spans mass-spectrometry proteomics, cancer genomics, and applied systems biology for food and vaccine innovation, reflecting both deep technical skill and practical productization experience. Colleagues describe him as a persistent mentor and organizer who turns complex datasets into reusable tools and resources that accelerate research impact.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
interaction9
bioinformatics9
transcriptomics4
database1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BaderLab/openPIP
Oct 2016 - Mar 2022
The open protein interaction platform repo
Contributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 23 pushes in 5 years 5 months
bioinformaticsinteractionprotein
MoHelmy/COVID-Vaccine-Arab-Survey
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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