Michael Apostolides

Bioinformatics Scientist with 7 years of experience developing reproducible pipelines and analyzing large-scale genomic data for both research and clinical applications. I created MetaFusion, a fusion detection tool implemented in diagnostics at SickKids and being adopted at Mayo Clinic (21% higher yield than Illumina’s DRAGEN), and co-developed MPAQT, an RNA-seq quantification method outperforming Salmon and Kallisto. As first author on multiple peer-reviewed publications and with expertise in single-cell genomics, long-read sequencing, and workflow development, I help clients build accurate, scalable, and clinically relevant bioinformatics solutions.

Bioinformatics Scientist – McGill University, Montréal, Canada (Jun 2025 – Present)

Bioinformatics Scientist – Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Canada (Mar 2024 – May 2025)

Masters Researcher, Human Genetics – Bioinformatics – McGill University, Montréal, Canada (May 2021 – Aug 2023)

Bioinformatician – The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Canada (May 2018 – May 2021)

M.Sc. in Human Genetics (Bioinformatics), McGill University

B.Sc. Molecular Biology and Computer Science, University of Toronto