Gihawi_Concise_CV.Rmd

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title: "Abraham Gihawi - Curriculum Vitae"
author: Abraham Gihawi
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Aside
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Contact {#contact}
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- <i class="fa fa-envelope"></i> [AbrahamGihawi@hotmail.com](mailto::a.gihawi@uea.ac.uk)
- <i class="fa fa-github"></i> [Agihawi](https://github.com/Agihawi)
- <i class="fa fa-twitter"></i> [\@AbrahamGihawi](https://twitter.com/AbrahamGihawi)
- <i class="fa fa-phone"></i> +44 7793068331
- <i class="ai ai-orcid"></i> [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3676-5561)
- <i class="fab fa-linkedin-in"></i> [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abraham-gihawi-887954a6/)
- <i class="ai ai-google-scholar"></i> [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=CzHmHBYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao)

Skills {#skills}
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**Programming:** R, Python, Unix

- Computational Pipelines
- Microbial Bioinformatics 
- High Performance Computing
- Dimensionality Reduction
- Translational Cancer Research


Conferences 
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Posters:

[Genomics England 2022](https://github.com/Agihawi/gel_summit_2022/blob/main/gel_summit_2022.pdf) <br>
[EACR Bioinformatics in Cancer, 2021](https://github.com/UEA-Cancer-Genetics-Lab/EACR_Bioinformatics_2021/blob/master/Poster.pdf) <br>
[NCRN Symposium, 2020](https://agihawi.github.io/ncrn_poster/) `r fa("trophy", fill = "gold")` <br>
[Genomics England, 2019](https://github.com/Agihawi/Gel_Conference_Poster_1/blob/master/Posterdown.pdf) <br>
[EMBL Heidelberg, 2018](https://www.embo-embl-symposia.org/symposia/2018/EES18-09/index.html)

Talks:

[NCRN (2021)](https://twitter.com/CancerInNorwich/status/1353738228625514500) <br>
UEA PGR Conference (2018)

References
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[Prof. Daniel Brewer](https://people.uea.ac.uk/d_brewer) D.Brewer@uea.ac.uk

[Prof. Colin Cooper](https://people.uea.ac.uk/colin_cooper) Colin.Cooper@uea.ac.uk


Disclaimer {#disclaimer}
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Code: [github.com/Agihawi/Gihawi_CV](https://github.com/Agihawi/Gihawi_CV)
Last updated: `r Sys.Date()`



Main
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Abraham Gihawi {#title}
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Academia {data-icon=graduation-cap data-concise=true}
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### Senior Research Associate in Bioinformatics

Pan-Prostate Cancer Group Bioinformatician

UEA

2022 - 2023

### Senior Bioinformatics Officer

Unravelling links between bacteria and aggressive prostate cancer

UEA

2021 - 2022

### PhD Computational Biology

Searching for Pathogens in Cancer Sequence Data

UEA

2021 - 2017

### MSc, Cancer Therapeutics - Distinction - 80%

Project: PHLDA1 in FGFR Inhibitor Resistant Cancer

QMUL

2017 - 2015

### BSc (hons) Biomedical Science - 69%

Project: A Portable Test for Bacteria & Urobilinogen in Urine

Lincoln

2014 - 2011



Experience {data-icon=laptop}
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### Medical Laboratory Assistant

Royal Sussex County Hospital

Brighton

2017 - 2015

- Processed and analysed clinical samples in adherence with trial protocols

### Health Advisor NHS 111

Care UK

Dorking

2015 - 2014

- Triaged patients and provided healthcare advice via telephone

### NHS Experience Placements

Princess Diana & Scunthorpe General

Grimsby & Scunthorpe

2014 - 2013

- Departments including: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Cardiology, Pathology (Biochemistry, Haematology, Transfusion, Andrology, Virology)

Key Publications {data-icon=book}
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### <i class="ai ai-open-access"></i> Microbiomes of Urine and the Prostate Are Linked to Human Prostate Cancer Risk Groups

European Urology Oncology

DOI: [10.1016/j.euo.2022.03.006](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euo.2022.03.006)

2022

Rachel Hurst, Emma Meader, **Abraham Gihawi** Ghanasyam Rallapalli... Colin Cooper.


### <i class="ai ai-open-access"></i> SEPATH: benchmarking the search for pathogens in human tissue whole genome sequence data leads to template pipelines 

Genome Biology

DOI: [10.1186/s13059-019-1819-8](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1819-8)

2019


**Abraham Gihawi**, Ghanasyam Rallapalli, Rachel Hurst... Daniel S. Brewer 


Other
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**Successful Grants:** 

- *"Unravelling how bacterial infection drives the development of aggressive prostate cancer"* - Co-Applicant, Prostate Cancer UK, £77,925
- *"The Role of Bacterial Infection in the development of Human Prostate Cancer"* - Co-Applicant, Bob Champion Cancer Trust, £87,634

**Peer Review:** Genome Biology (BMC), Genomics (Elsevier), BIoinformatics Advances (Oxford University Press)