Recent advancements in instrumentation technologies have enabled researchers to make accurate measurements on biomolecular entities participating in giving rise to complex biological phenomenon such as cancer, diabetes and drug resistance. Towards developing a mechanistic understanding of such complex biomolecular processes and to decipher the exact role of specific biomolecular entities within them, data integrative approaches can be quite helpful. The Biomedical Informatics Research Laboratory (BIRL) at LUMS aims to address such bio-medical informatics challenges by leveraging data integrative approaches that cut across disciplines. For that, we develop mathematical models of multifactorial systems, simulation software and associated data analysis pipelines.

Current themes of research at BIRL span (i) Cancer Systems Biology, (ii) Computational Proteomics, (iii) Health Informatics, and (iv) Drug Development for HCV.

We absolutely love to listen from colleagues working in these areas