Mario Abdelmessih

Mario Abdelmessih is an accomplished professional in the field of computational genomics, currently serving as the Associate Director at Vertex Pharmaceuticals since May 2025. Prior to this role, Mario held positions at AstraZeneca as Associate Director and Head of Translational Informatics and Integrative Biology, as well as Principal Bioinformatics Scientist from November 2022 to May 2025. Mario's experience also includes a tenure at Sanofi as Principal Scientist and at Pfizer as a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist. Earlier in his career, Mario was a Post-doctoral Associate at Yale University School of Medicine. Mario's academic background includes studies at Stanford University as a visiting student in Artificial Intelligence and at Purdue University as a visiting scholar in Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology.