First person – Baharak Ahmaderaghi

Abstract

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Baharak Ahmaderaghi is first author on ‘ Molecular Subtyping Resource: a user-friendly tool for rapid biological discovery from transcriptional data’, published in DMM. Baharak conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc research fellow in Dr Philip Dunne's lab at Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK. She is now a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, applying novel artificial intelligence (AI)/deep-learning methods in cancer research to improve the outcome for patients.