Rate My Professor Marmar Moussa

Marmar Moussa is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the Gallogly College of Engineering and the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, joining the institution in July 2023. Previously, she held the position of Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut from 2021 to 2023 and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cancer Immunology and Computational Genomics at the Carole and Ray Neag Cancer Center, University of Connecticut Health Center from 2019 to 2021. Dr. Moussa earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering with a focus on Computational Genomics from the University of Connecticut in 2019, during which she received the prestigious CSE Taylor Booth Fellowship. She also holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering with a focus on Bioinformatics from the University of Connecticut in 2018, an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering with a focus on Cryptography from Alexandria University in 2004, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Alexandria University.

Dr. Moussa's research specializations include algorithms, machine learning, data analytics, computational genomics, bioinformatics, computational biology, single-cell omics, and cancer immunomics. She has received significant recognition through major awards, including a nearly $1 million NIH K25 Career Development Award from August 2023 to July 2028 for developing computational approaches to elucidate the serrated pathway of human colon carcinogenesis using spatial transcriptomics, and a $533,616 NSF CAREER Award from May 2025 to April 2030 to create algorithms integrating molecular profiling with spatial tissue analysis for studying disease processes like tumor progression. Her key publications encompass Ebrahimi-Nik et al., 'Neoantigen cancer vaccines induce T cell infiltration and exclude immunosuppressive macrophages,' Nature Communications (2021); Bakken et al., 'Evolution of cellular diversity in the mouse cortex,' Nature (2021); Nevin et al., 'Neoepitope-Targeted Cancer Vaccines Elicit Protective Immunity Against Established Melanoma,' Science Immunology (2020); Moussa and Mǎndoiu, 'Scalable Pairwise Whole Genome Alignment,' Journal of Computational Biology (2021); and as editor, Bansal et al., Springer Nature (2022). These contributions advance computational methods in biomedical sciences, particularly cancer research.