Samir B Amin, MBBS, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

Working in the comparative oncology field to study spontaneous development of glioma in Canis familiaris or dogs with emphasis on characterizing and comparing cancer genome and transcriptome to that in human glioma.

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About Samir B Amin, MBBS, Ph.D.

Dr. Amin received his Ph.D. in cancer computational biology from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX in 01/2017. His thesis work was carried out at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, and was focused on understanding long non-coding RNA interactions in the context of chromatin organization using integrated analyses of publically available expression, epigenomic and chromatin interaction data. Before completing Ph.D., Dr. Amin received research training (2008-2011) in computational biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA where he worked on the assessment of gene expression profiling as predictive biomarker in multiple myeloma. Previously, Dr. Amin received his first professional degree in medicine, MBBS from the Medical College of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India in 2005.

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Education and experience

Education:

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) 11/1998-03/2005 Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat India
Ph.D. 08/2011-01/2017 Cancer Computational Biology, Graduate Program in Structural and Computational Biology & Molecular Biophysics (SCBMB), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Experience:

Postdoctoral fellow 2017-Present Verhaak Lab at the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT
Graduate Student 2011-2016 Baylor College of Medicine and the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Research fellow 2008-2011 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Resident physician 2006-2007 Bhailal Amin General Hospital, Vadodara, GJ, India

Honors and accomplishments

Prof. John J. Trentin Award for Scholastic Excellence
2012 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Selected Publications

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Search MagazineAugust 14, 2018
Understanding our inheritence
To find out more about the complexities of inheritance, JAX spoke with author and New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer, who frequently writes about genetics and evolution. His new book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, tackles the vast concept of heredity – everything that living organisms pass on to future generations, and the means by which they do so.
Press ReleaseAugust 01, 2018
A RACIPE for success
New five-year, $2.2M outstanding investigator grant to Mingyang Lu will support systems biology algorithm approach.
Research HighlightJuly 12, 2018
The distinct forms of an important genomic disruption
A new paper further explains the genomic disruption known as the tandem duplicator phenotype (TDP), a common attribute in some of the most deadly cancers of women.
Minute to UnderstandingJune 28, 2018
What is epigenetics?
Learn how epigenetic changes can affect an individual without physically changing their DNA sequence.
- Aging
- Genetics and Genomics

Press ReleaseAugust 01, 2018
$2M NIH Grant to Study Genetic Mechanisms of Inherited Heart Muscle Disorders
Travis Hinson, M.D., has received more than $2 million from the National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study the mechanisms responsible for a serious and often fatal heart condition.
- Cardiovascular
- Genetics and Genomics
Research HighlightJuly 30, 2018
Immune system 2.0: Can we re-engineer the human immune response?
JAX researchers have demonstrated the ability to target and disrupt specific genes and/or alter their expression levels, which has important implications for both immunology research and clinical treatments.
Research HighlightJune 28, 2018
How do cancer cells achieve immortality?
Cancer cell immortality leads to massive tumors, metastatic spread, and potentially re-emergence. Researchers are working to determine how cancer cells achieve immortality.
- Cancer/Tumors
- Cancer
Research HighlightJune 21, 2018
Finding the genes controlling ovarian reserve could hold key to better female fertility care
Jackson Laboratory Assistant Professor Ewelina Bolcun-Filas, Ph.D., is looking at how multiple genetic factors regulating oocyte development determine the differences in each woman’s ovarian reserve.