DrRahuman Malik Sheriff

Dr. Sheriff is a Senior Project Leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute, part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. Dr. Sheriff's research focuses on developing a 'Digital Twin' of the human immune system and cancer, collaborating extensively with major pharmaceutical companies. His work also involves developing tools and resources for the mechanistic and AI/ML modelling of biological systems. He spearheads the curation of models in the BioModels repository to build the largest collection of systems biology and machine learning models that could used as building blocks to create digital twins. He also leads the development of BioModels web infrastructure. He is an active contributor to the development of community standards in modelling, collaborates with modelling software developers and serves as an elected editorial board member of the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML). With over 14 years of research experience as a computational biologist, Dr. Sheriff has held positions at the Medical Research Council - London Institute of Medical Science, Imperial College London, and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Germany.