Computational biologist · AUB Beirut

Treating cancer
as a physics problem

I build tools that ask not what a tumor looks like, but where it is, how stable it is in its current state, how close it is to tipping into a different one, and whether that distance can be measured before treatment begins rather than after it fails.

mkm25@mail.aub.edu GitHub ORCID
Current work
Reconstructs the transcriptional attractor landscape of tumors from bulk RNA-seq data. Computes quasi-potential geometry, basin depth, basin width, and saddle point proximity to predict treatment resistance and clinical outcome. The saddle point proximity score is the core result: a tumor sitting close to the boundary between a sensitive and a resistant attractor basin, before a single dose of treatment, should carry that instability in its gene expression signature. Validated across TCGA cancer types. R package.
R Dynamical systems Oncology In progress
Batch-harmonized ML framework for cross-cohort RNA biomarker discovery in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. bioRxiv 2025 (doi:10.1101/2025.11.14.688421).
R Machine learning PDAC
Resolving the GPRC5A prognostic paradox in PDAC through subtype stratification, treatment deconfounding, proteomics, AlphaFold2, and ML. Manuscript in preparation.
R AlphaFold2 Proteomics
ResNet-FPN deep learning classifier for kidney biopsy fibrosis grading across 4 classes, with AI-generated pathology reports via LLM. Streamlit app.
Python Deep learning Pathology
R Shiny platform for miRNA qPCR analysis in renal cell carcinoma: ΔΔCt normalization, geNorm stability, Wilcoxon testing, ROC-AUC, elastic net multi-miRNA classifier.
R Shiny miRNA
Essay
Personal essay

On Faith, Suffering, and the Geometry of Disease

Before the mathematics, there is a question that has no R package. Not what is cancer, not how does it resist treatment, but why, why does it take the people it takes, and why does it take the innocent. I am a Christian first and a researcher second. This essay is the most honest explanation of why this project exists and what I believe is working through me when I build it.

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