Maral Aminpour
Personal Website: https://www.maralaminpour.ca
Contact
Assistant Professor, ENG Biomedical Engineering
- aminpour@ualberta.ca
- Address
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13-228 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 StEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
About
Maral Aminpour is currently appointed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Alberta.
Research
Our computational Lab is located in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. We specialize in developing computer models to aid in drug discovery and the understanding of biological systems and their interactions. Currently, our research is focused on repurposing drugs for COVID-19, optimizing anti-tubulin cancer drugs, and creating new software that utilizes a hybrid method of artificial intelligence and physics-based methods to study protein-protein interactions.
Please check my lab's website: https://www.maralaminpour.ca
Courses
BME 620 - Rational Drug Design and Discovery: Principles and Applications
Description: An introduction to topics and tools in structure-based and ligand-based in silico drug design such as molecular dynamics, virtual screening, receptor-drug interactions, and pharmacophore modeling. Holistic view of drug discovery including topics such as pharmacokinetics and systems biology, Artificial Intelligence's role in drug discovery and an introduction to precision medicine.
BME 677 - Machine Learning for Biomedical Applications
Applications of machine learning tools to real-world problems in biomedical engineering including diagnostic and prognostic applications. An introduction to machine learning. Machine learning tools: regression and classification; manifold learning and dimensional reduction; decision trees and ensemble learning; unsupervised learning and clustering; feature selection and feature extraction; neural networks and deep learning. Biomedical applications: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurological diseases and infectious diseases.