Dr. Mohamed Belhocine

     Dr. Mohamed Belhocine is the Head of Molecular Medicine Department and Director of the Jawhara Center. Mohamed is an Assistant Professor at Arabian Gulf University of Bahrain. Mohamed holds an MSc. in Microbiology from the University of Blida (Algeria), a bachelor’s degree in cell and molecular biology and an MSc. in bioinformatics, genomics and structural biochemistry and a PhD. of Bioinformatics and Genomics from Luminy university (France).  His research focuses on the application large-scale genomic approaches to understand epigenetic mechanisms associated with development of normal and leukemic lymphoid cells. Through his experience in laboratories as the Center of Immunology Marseille Luminy (CIML) and the Technological Advances for Genomics and Clinics Laboratory (TAGC), Mohamed has acquired extensive knowledge in experimental and computational biology, specifically in transcriptome analysis and chromatin immuno-precipitation coupled with deep sequencing (CHIP-Seq) and RNA-sequencing analysis. Mohamed is proficient in R, python, and JAVA. Mohamed is currently a Senior Bioinformatician at Jawhara center, where he supervises a clinical NGS analysis. Additionally, Mohamed develops and oversees research training programs in a few Algerian Universities.