Maral Aminpour

Assistant Professor, ENG Biomedical Engineering

Personal Website: https://www.maralaminpour.ca

Contact

Assistant Professor, ENG Biomedical Engineering
Email
aminpour@ualberta.ca
Address
13-228 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 St
Edmonton AB
T6G 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.


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