Plenary Lecture
Biomedical Informatics; New Insights in Next Generation of Clinical and Basic Human Biological Sciences
Assis. Prof. Babak Khalili Hadad
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Sciences
Azad University
Roudehen branch, Tehran
Iran
E-mail: khalili@riau.ac.ir
Abstract: The mechanisms of many diseases are not well known. Because of that a lot of materials and drugs are utilized in medical fields without any useful reason. The ambiguous unsolved problems are time-consuming for physicians and make the treatment processes hard. Many people suffer from the invasive treatments because the mechanism of their illness is not well known and, consequently, there is no effective drug or treatment method against their medical problem. Todays, with the help of Biomedical informatics (BMI) as a new multi-purposes interdisciplinary science, application of biomedical knowledge and information to improve patient care and medical sciences research are facilitated. Study on cellular and/or molecular modeling and simulation, drug design, docking and computational biochemistry, sequence analysis, analysis of gene expression and regulation, protein expression, mutations in cancer are some parameter that are facilitated by such Bioinformatical approaches.
Our research lines focus on clinical investigations in combination to Biomedical informatics. The mechanisms of unknown errors of bone formation, hormonal malfunctions, consequently, drug design and docking are the main topics of interests.
The main ways to join computer sciences to molecular medical sciences will be explained and a new insight into Heterotopic ossification by focusing on the role of Transforming growth factor – β super family, as well as the main biomedical causes of Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) will be presented as two examples.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Babak Khalili Hadad graduated from Azad University- Sciences and Research Branch in Biochemistry, where he has started to combine Biomedical sciences with Bioinformatics to explain the mechanism of some diseases. Computer-aided drug design and delivery, docking and ligand- target protein interaction are among his interests. Before that he had graduated in Msc. degree of Clinical and applied Biochemistry from Kerman University of Medical Sciences, and B.Sc. of Cell and Molecular Biology, from Shiraz University of Sciences. He has started to teach Biochemistry (Advanced animal & plant metabolism, Control of metabolism, Pure and Clinical Enzymology, Clinical biochemistry, Bioinformatics) and Molecular biology since 1998. He has been in the organizing committee of some Bioinformatics congresses up to now and also, the editorial board member of American Journal of Bioinformatics Research. He has also been awarded several times as Top university professor and Top researcher. His research interests in Azad University, Faculty of Sciences - Roudehen Branch focus on Biochemical aspects of Bone diseases, specially, Heterotopic ossification and Scoliosis, Blood disorders and Hormonal malfunctions.
He has 17 published papers and 3 submitted as well as 16 presentations in national and international congresses.