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I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Medical Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Techhnology (NTNU), focusing on stratifying small-cell lung cancer patients by cancer subtype and identifying novel biomarkers. My goal is to improve patient stratification by discovering mechanisms of treatment resistance and vulnerabilities, improving both treatment outcomes and prognosis.</p> <p>𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣: Within this domain, I’ve been focused on learning more about the applications of Clinical Bioinformatics, Biomedical Data Science and Medical Statistics in Transcriptomics to hunt for biomarkers predictive of response/resistance to treatment, prognosis and diagnosis in Oncology.</p> <p>My main goal is to apply my academic knowledge and industry experience to work in translational biomedical research (T0-T3) in the Pharma/Biotech Industry. I aim to develop Software as Medical Device (SaMD) solutions that function as Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS), using LLMs, Machine Learning and Computer Vision in the field of (radio)transcriptomics and Spatial Transcriptomics applied to Oncology.</p> <p>𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚: With over 2 years of combined experience as a Data Scientist and as a Bioinformatician in the industry, I’ve worked as a FullStack trainee for the development of landing pages for investment courses and automated stock web-scrappers. Additionally, I worked as a Data Scientist while finishing my MSc thesis in Radiomics applied to papillary thyroid cancer. During my PhD, I’ve also joined a part-time temporary position at a startup as a Bioinformatician.</p> <p>𝙃𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙨: I am a big advocate that in order to succeed we need to take care of our mental and physical well-being so during my free time I like to exercise and read. Currently, my reading interests are “Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey, and “Learned Optimism” by Martin Seligman. I also use the flexibility that e-Learning platforms offer to study daily by enrolling in several month-long specializations in the fields of Bioinformatics, Statistics, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning to broaden my knowledge and apply it to Oncology.</p> </div> <h2> <a href="/news/" style="color: inherit">news</a> </h2> <div class="news"> <div class="table-responsive" style="max-height: 60vw"> <table class="table table-sm table-borderless"> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">May 21, 2026</th> <td> Released <a href="https://rafael-silva-oliveira.github.io/projects/paperzorro/">PaperZorro</a>, an AI-powered literature scout for Zotero. Build precise boolean searches across PubMed, arXiv and bio

21Rxiv/medRxiv, let a language model filter the noise, and import only the papers that matter — with scheduled searches that keep your library current automatically. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Apr 07, 2026</th> <td> Released <a href="https://rafael-silva-oliveira.github.io/projects/numify/">Numify</a>, a Zotero plugin that automatically adds hierarchical numeric prefixes to your collection names. Create, rename, delete, or reorder collections — the numbering stays in sync across all your devices. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Apr 06, 2026</th> <td> Published a first release of <a href="https://rafael-silva-oliveira.github.io/projects/nzbridge/">NZBridge</a>, a browser extension and Zotero plugin for bidirectional sync between Zotero and Google NotebookLM. Push your research library into NotebookLM for AI-powered analysis, then pull generated notes back into Zotero. </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <h2> <a href="/blog/" style="color: inherit">latest posts</a> </h2> <div class="news"> <div class="table-responsive"> <table class="table table-sm table-borderless"> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">May 29, 2026</th> <td> <a class="news-title" href="/blog/2026/radiosensitivity-biomarker/">Personalizing radiotherapy with RSI, GARD, and RxRSI with bulk RNA data</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Mar 18, 2026</th> <td> <a class="news-title" href="/blog/2026/segmentation-and-annotation/">Practical Guide to Cell Segmentation, Domain Identification and Cell Type Annotation in Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics (Visium HD)</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Dec 17, 2025</th> <td> <a class="news-title" href="/blog/2025/distill/">Cancer subtyping using cNMF and literature markers</a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="social"> <div class="contact-icons"> <a href="/assets/pdf/Rafael_Oliveira_CV_2026.pdf" title="CV" target="_blank"><i class="ai ai-cv"></i></a> <a href="mailto:%72%61%66%61%65%6C.%73%6C%6F@%6F%75%74%6C%6F%6F%6B.%63%6F%6D" title="email"><i class="fa-solid fa-envelope"></i></a> <a href="https://github.com/Rafael-Silva-Oliveira" title="GitHub" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i class="fa-brands fa-github"></i></a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafael-slo" title="LinkedIn" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i class="fa-brands fa-linkedin"></i></a> <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafael-Oliveira-179/" title="ResearchGate" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i class="ai ai-researchgate"></i></a> <a href="https://youtube.com/@SciencePond" title="YouTube" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i class="fa-brands fa-youtube"></i></a> <a href="https://www.zotero.org/rafaelsilvaoliveira" title="Zotero" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><i class="ai ai-zotero"></i></a> <a href="https://rafael-silva-oliveira.github.io/blog/" title="Blog"> <svg> <image xlink:href="/assets/img/logo.svg"></image> </svg> </a> <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/rafaeloliveira" title="Buy Me a Coffee" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> <svg> <image xlink:href="/assets/img/buymeacoffee.svg"></image> </svg> </a> </div> <div class="contact-note"></div> </div> </article> </div> </div> <footer class="fixed-bottom" role="contentinfo"> <div class="container mt-0"> © Copyright 2026 Rafael Oliveira. Powered by <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Jekyll</a> with <a href="https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">al-folio</a> theme. Hosted by <a href="https://pages.github.com/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">GitHub Pages</a>. </div> </footer> 

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