Dr. Alessia David

Biography

Alessia David is an Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Imperial College London, specializing in Bioinformatics and Data Intensive Biology. With a background in Medicine from the University of Rome La Sapienza, she completed her specialist training in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases. Alessia holds a PhD in Molecular Endocrinology from the William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University of London, and an MSc in Bioinformatics and System Biology from Imperial College London. Over the past ten years, she has been engaged in identifying genetic molecular mechanisms contributing to human diseases through a range of mathematical bioinformatics approaches. Alessia has published extensively on various genetic conditions and has secured funding from the MRC, Wellcome Trust, and Imperial Health Charity. Her significant contributions include co-developing the Missense3D resource, an algorithm for predicting structural changes from amino acid substitutions, and Missense3D-DB, a database of precomputed structural predictions for four million human missense variants, along with the PhyreRisk application for exploring genetic variants and their experimental predicted structures. She was awarded an MRC fellowship in Biomedical Informatics.

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