Sheema Sameen

PhD Student
Department of Informatics
University of Pisa, Italy

 

Education and training

 

(February 2013– Present)

 

PhD – Thesis title: “Modelling of Drug and Cell Populations in Cancer Therapies”

Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Pisa, Italy

 

(September 2009– February 2011)

 

Masters of Science (MS) in Bioinformatics

Thesis title: "A High-Throughput Computational Analysis of MicroRNA signatures in

Human Ovarian Cancer"

International Islamic University (IIU), Islamabad, Pakistan

 

(September 2005– August 2009)

 

Bachelors of Science (BS) in Bioinformatics

Thesis title: "Genetic Predisposition of Heart Diseases in Pakistan"

International Islamic University (IIU), Islamabad, Pakistan

 

 

Work experience

 

(February 2013– Presen)t

 

PhD Fellow

Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Pisa, Italy



Working on: “Modelling of Cancer Drug Resistance Mechanisms in Colorectal and Lung Cancer Case Studies”

 

(September 2012-February 2013)

 

Research Fellow

United Nations University Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST)

Macau,(SAR) China

Worked on Modelling of Gene Regulatory Systems

 

(March 2012 – August 2012)

 

Researcher

Research Center for Modelling and Simulations (RCMS), National University of Science and Technology (NUST)



Participated in the Bioinformatics Project: “Modification of Vector Space Model for Sequence Alignment

 

(March 2010 – March 2011)

 

Internee

National Tuberculosis control Program (NTP), Pakistan



Participated in the Project of Modelling TB Epidemiological Data of Paskiatn.

 

(April 2009 – June 2009)

 

Internee

Institute of Biomedical and Genetic Engineering (IBGE), Islamabad, Pakistan



Participated in the Project for finding Genetic Predisposition of Heart Diseases in Pakistan