Mohmed Abdalfttah

PhD Student

Mohmed was born in November 1998 in Egypt and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from Ain Shams University in June 2021. Shortly after, in September 2021, he embarked on a six-month internship in the Computational Epigenomics (Maria Colomé-Tatché’s) lab at Helmholtz Zentrum München. There, Mohmed focused on developing a cell-cell communication algorithm utilizing both bulk and single-cell transcriptomic data. In June 2022, he moved to Barcelona to join the Single Cell Genomics (Holger Heyn’s) lab at the National Center for Genomic Analysis (CNAG) as a Computational Biologist. During his tenure at CNAG, Mohmed contributed to various projects, including studies on breast cancer and brain metastasis, particularly focusing on the tumor microenvironment using single-cell data and spatial transcriptomics. In September 2023, he was awarded a fellowship to pursue his Master’s degree at the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST). For his thesis research, Mohamed worked in the Colorectal Cancer (Eduard Batlle’s) lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), where he concentrated on deciphering the tumor microenvironment and cancer cell heterogeneity in colorectal cancer through single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. In September 2024 he joined the brain metastasis lab at National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) to start his PhD.