Bilde av Ahmad, Rafi
Bilde av Ahmad, Rafi
Clinical bioinformatics rafi.ahmad@uit.no Tromsø You can find me here

Rafi Ahmad



  • Jonathan Hira, Nasib Bin Mahbub, Jawad Ali, Rafi Ahmad :
    Low-cost in-house re-formulated brain heart infusion medium for effective planktonic growth and early detection of bloodstream bacterial pathogens
    Frontiers in Microbiology 02. diciembre 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Crystal Chapagain, Abdolrahman Khezri, Jawad Ali, Marit Smistad, Liv Synnøve Sølverød, Rafi Ahmad :
    Optimizing sample preparation for culture-free nanopore sequencing to enable rapid pathogen and antimicrobial resistance profiling in bovine mastitis
    Frontiers in Microbiology 06. noviembre 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Sverre Branders, Isabell Kegel, Jawad Ali, Fatemeh Asadikhoeini, Truls Erik Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Metagenomic sequencing enables accurate pathogen and antimicrobial susceptibility profiling in complicated UTIs in approximately four hours
    Nature Communications 03. diciembre 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Abdolrahman Khezri, Sverre Branders, Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Jawad Ali, Crystal Chapagain, Fatemeh Asadikhoeini et al.:
    MysteryMaster: scraping the bottom of the barrel of barcoded Oxford nanopore reads
    BMC Bioinformatics 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Qian Wei, Håvard Foyn, Johannes Landskron, Shixiong Wang, Inga Hansine Rye, Sigrid S Skånland et al.:
    Identification of a group of 9-amino-acridines that selectively downregulate regulatory T cell functions through FoxP3
    iScience 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Abdolrahman Khezri, Jawad Ali, Rafi Ahmad :
    Clinical diagnostics of bacterial infections and their resistance to antibiotics-Current state and novel enabling technologies implementation perspectives
    2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Nuria Garcia Diaz, Elise Solli, Ehsan Hajjar, Selma Cornillot‐Clément, Johannes Landskron, Rafi Ahmad et al.:
    MAPK and STAT3 Inhibitors Modulate FoxP3 Expression and Regulatory T Cell Function
    European Journal of Immunology 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Line Strand Karlsholm, Rafi Ahmad, Hagar Taman, Christopher Graham Fenton, Ruth H Paulssen :
    Actively expressed microbiota in tissue biopsies of treatment-naive ulcerative colitis patients
    Gut Microbes Reports 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Jawad Ali, Wenche Johansen, Rafi Ahmad :
    Short turnaround time of seven to nine hours from sample collection until informed decision for sepsis treatment using nanopore sequencing
    Scientific Reports 19. marzo 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Crystal Chapagain, Sverre Branders, Jawad Ali, Robert Charles Wilson, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Culture and amplification-free nanopore sequencing for rapid detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes from urine
    European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Astrid Louise Wester, Svein Øivind Solberg, Unni Gopinathan, Rafi Ahmad, David W. Graham :
    Antimicrobial Resistance in a One Health and One World Perspective – Mechanisms and Perspectives
    2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Asal Ahmadi, Abdolrahman Khezri, Håvard Nørstebø, Rafi Ahmad :
    A culture-, amplification-independent, and rapid method for identification of pathogens and antibiotic resistance profile in bovine mastitis milk
    Frontiers in Microbiology 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Ny norskutviklet hurtigtest kan redde liv
    15. enero 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Ny norskutviklet hurtigtest kan redde liv
    14. enero 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Denne norske oppfinnelsen kan brukes i kampen mot resistente bakterier
    13. enero 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Kan spare opptil 1,6 millioner antibiotikadoser hvert år
    20. enero 2026 DOI / ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    UTI-Diag: Reducing the burden of antimicrobial resistance – urinary tract infection using innovative and scalable rapid diagnosis
    18. diciembre 2025 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Superbugs vs. Super Tech: How AI and Genomics Are Reshaping the Battle Against Infection and AMR
    18. diciembre 2025 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    AMR-Educate: A multinational and interdisciplinary research-integrated education partnership for a sustainable future against infection and antimicrobial resistance threats
    15. diciembre 2025 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Hva er antibiotikaresistens?
    26. noviembre 2025 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    AI vs. Superbugs: How Artificial Intelligence IsTransforming Our Fight Against Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
    19. noviembre 2025 ARKIV
  • Erlend Moe, Ole - Andre Lagmandokk, Rafi Ahmad :
    Rafis kamp
    18. marzo 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Four-hour turnaround for diagnosing complex UTIs using nanopore sequencing
    28. agosto 2025 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Innovative Technologies for Rapid Detection of Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
    23. septiembre 2025 ARKIV
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Sverre Branders, Isabell Kegel, Jawad Ali, Fatemeh Asadi, Truls Erik Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Accurate and rapid turnaround of four hours for the diagnosis of complicated UTIs using metagenomics
    30. agosto 2025 ARKIV
  • Sverre Branders, Manfred G. Grabherr, Rafi Ahmad :
    Voyager: Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Longread Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Sorted Motif Distance Space
    2025 ARKIV
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Sverre Branders, Isabell Kegel, Jawad Ali, Fatemeh Asadi, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Turnaround time of just four hours from sample collection to informed decision-making for complicated urinary tract infections in a urology ward, using culture-independent metagenomics
    2025 ARKIV
  • Sverre Branders, Isabell Kegel, Jawad Ali, Fatemeh Asadi, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen, Can Imirzalioglu et al.:
    Turnaround time of just four hours from sample collection to informed decision-making for complicated urinary tract infections in a urology ward, using culture-independent metagenomics
    2025 ARKIV
  • Sverre Branders, Manfred G. Grabherr, Rafi Ahmad :
    Voyager: novel real-time taxonomic characterization of long-read sequence data
    2025 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Novel enabling technologies for diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance
    2025 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Four-hour turnaround for diagnosing complex UTIs using nanopore sequencing
    2025 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Rapid point of care UTI diagnostics using nanopore sequencing
    2025 ARKIV
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Crystal Chapagain, Sverre Branders, Jawad Ali, Robert Charles Wilson, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Rapid Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection using Nanopore sequencing
    2025 ARKIV
  • Jawad Ali, Wenche Johansen, Rafi Ahmad :
    Short turnaround time of seven to nine hours from sample collection until informed decision for sepsis treatment using nanopore sequencing
    2024 ARKIV
  • Sverre Branders, Manfred G. Grabherr, Rafi Ahmad :
    Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Long-read Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Sorted Motif Distance Space: Voyager
    BioRxiv 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Metagenomic analysis for rapid detection of bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance
    2024 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Urindyrkning og resistensbestemmelse på 24t
    2024 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Fra idé til product, en reise i produktutvikling
    2024 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Metagenomic analysis for rapid detection of bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance
    2024 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Novel technological solutions for rapid diagnostics of infection and antimicrobial resistance: A One Health approach.
    2024 ARKIV
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Crystal Chapagain, Sverre Branders, Jawad Ali, Robert Charles Wilson, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Rapid Detection of Clinically Relevant Uropathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in 5 Hours using Nanopore Sequencing
    2024 ARKIV
  • Sverre Branders, Rafi Ahmad, Manfred G. Grabherr :
    Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Long-read Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Distance-space
    2024 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    How and when is rapid point of diagnostic tools to arrive and reshape management of urosepsis?
    2024 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Point of diagnosis to direct treatment: Emerging technologies?
    2024 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Two to five hours of incubation of blood culture bottles in a standard laboratory incubator followed by nanopore sequencing is enough for the identification of sepsis pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance 
    2024 ARKIV
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Crystal Chapagain, Sverre Branders, Jawad Ali, Robert Charles Wilson, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistant genes from urine within 5 hours using Nanopore sequencing
    BioRxiv 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Sverre Branders, Rafi Ahmad, Manfred G. Grabherr :
    Real-time Taxonomic Characterization of Long-read Mixed-species Sequencing Samples in Distance-space
    2024 ARKIV
  • Rafi Ahmad :
    Short Turnaround Time of Seven to Nine Hours from Sample Collection Until Informed Decision for Sepsis Treatment Using Nanopore Sequencing
    2024 ARKIV
  • Anurag Basavaraj Bellankimath, Crystal Chapagain, Sverre Branders, Jawad Ali, Robert Charles Wilson, Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen et al.:
    Rapid Detection of Clinically Relevant Uropathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in 5 Hours using Nanopore Sequencing
    2024 ARKIV
  • Jawad Ali, Rafi Ahmad :
    Rapid Diagnostics of Pathogens and AMR-encoding Genes in Blood Cultures Using Nanopore Sequencing 
    2023 ARKIV

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