MD Shakhaowat Hossain
PhD Candidate in Biomedical Sciences
Computational Biology | Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics | AI/ML | Transplant Informatics
Center for Biomedical Informatics & Genomics · Tulane University School of Medicine
Recent Publications
A Web-based Matchability Calculator Based on Comprehensive HLA Population Reference Data — A New Metric for Optimizing US Organ Allocation Policy.
American Journal of Transplantation, 26(7), S636. American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, USA. (2026) published
HLA Matchability in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
American Journal of Transplantation, 26(7), S626–S627. American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, USA. (2026) published
Hormone Replacement Before Brain Death Increases Organ Donation Rate After Catastrophic Brain Injury: An EAST Multicenter Trial.
Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 39th Annual Scientific Assembly, Atlanta, GA, USA. (2026) accepted
Current Research
Graduate Research Assistant (Dissertation) — Tulane University School of Medicine
PI: Loren Gragert, PhD (Center for Biomedical Informatics & Genomics)
Research Collaborator — Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
PI: Kristen Nordham, MD (Department of Surgery)
Research Collaborator — NYU Langone Health
PI: Michal A. Mankowski, PhD (Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine)
Tools & Software
HLA Matchability Calculator
Public Django web application on AWS EC2 — real-time individualized HLA matching...
Transplant Toolbox
Modernized the Gragert Lab's suite of public-facing transplant immunology tools:...
HaploFreqImpute
High-resolution HLA imputation model leveraging expectation-maximization, ~10M N...
AlleleFreqImpute
Single-locus baseline imputation pipeline; comparator to HaploFreqImpute....
Probabilistic Offer Filter
Reference implementation demonstrating automation of the UNet match-run via impu...
Clinical Typing Parsers
Three production-grade ingestion pipelines that convert heterogeneous vendor-spe...
HLA-RAG
Domain-specific retrieval-augmented generation system over ~3,500 curated HLA ar...
ILC3-RAG
Retrieval-augmented generation system built on ~2,600 curated Q1 journal article...