Freddy Francis

PhD Trainee, Experimental Medicine

I am a final year PhD Candidate in the department of Experimental Medicine working with Dr. Amee Manges at the BC Centre for Disease Control. My primary research focus is on understanding the role of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and its impact on human infections, the microbiome, malnutrition and sometimes even on harbour seals! I coordinated a randomized clinical trial looking at decolonizing AMR bugs from the guts of renal transplant patients using fecal microbiota transplantation. I explored the dynamic changes of the AMR genes in the gut metagenomes of children living with malnutrition and HIV. I have a passion for teaching and have TA-ed various biology, statistics and data science courses for undergraduate and graduate levels at UBC. I am very excited to be a part of the DASH research cluster where I assist with the work on unification of health data, in enhancing efficient translation of research, thereby contributing to optimizing health care for patients in BC.

Research Interests: Data Analytics, Data science, Pipeline development, Metagenomics, Antimicrobial resistance, Microbiome

Freddy

Contact

Freddy Francis

freddy.francis@ubc.ca

Research Interests
  • Data Analytics, Data Science, Microbiome

Data Science and Health

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Vancouver, BC Canada V5Z 1M9

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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