
Zaina Alhemeiri
PhD Student
Education: MSc, University of Bath - 2025; BSc, King's College London - 2024
Zaina is a PhD student in the Computational Biology program at MBZUAI. She holds an M.Sc. in Molecular Biosciences (Medical Biosciences) from the University of Bath and a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from King’s College London.
At MBZUAI, she is part of the Computational Biology and Cancer Regulatory Genomics (CBCRG) Lab, where she studies transcriptional regulation in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). With a background spanning experimental biochemistry and genomics, her research interests include multi-omics data integration, cancer regulatory genomics, and applying machine learning to biological systems.