Maha Farhat

Maha Farhat, MD, MSc

Gilbert S. Omenn Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) PhD Track

10 Shattuck Street #307, Boston, MA 02115

Farhat Lab

Maha Farhat  holds an MD from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and a MSc in biostatistics from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She is also a practicing physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Farhat's research focuses on the development and application of methods for associating genotype and phenotype in infectious disease pathogens, with a strong emphasis on translation to better diagnostics and surveillance in resource-poor settings. To date, Farhat's work has focused on the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and spans the spectrum from computational analysis to field studies. She is PI and Co-Investigator on several large projects funded by NIH including the NIAID and the BD2K initiative.


DBMI Research Areas
Whole genome sequencing identifies bacterial factors affecting transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in a high-prevalence setting.
Authors: Dixit A, Freschi L, Vargas R, Calderon R, Sacchettini J, Drobniewski F, Galea JT, Contreras C, Yataco R, Zhang Z, Lecca L, Kolokotronis SO, Mathema B, Farhat MR.
Sci Rep
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Rifampicin and rifabutin resistance in 1003 Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates.
Authors: Farhat MR, Sixsmith J, Calderon R, Hicks ND, Fortune SM, Murray M.
J Antimicrob Chemother
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Genome-wide discovery of epistatic loci affecting antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae using evolutionary couplings.
Authors: Schubert B, Maddamsetti R, Nyman J, Farhat MR, Marks DS.
Nat Microbiol
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Antibiotic resistance prediction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis from genome sequence data with Mykrobe.
Authors: Hunt M, Bradley P, Lapierre SG, Heys S, Thomsit M, Hall MB, Malone KM, Wintringer P, Walker TM, Cirillo DM, Comas I, Farhat MR, Fowler P, Gardy J, Ismail N, Kohl TA, Mathys V, Merker M, Niemann S, Omar SV, Sintchenko V, Smith G, van Soolingen D, Supply P, Tahseen S, Wilcox M, Arandjelovic I, Peto TEA, Crook DW, Iqbal Z.
Wellcome Open Res
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Prediction of Susceptibility to First-Line Tuberculosis Drugs by DNA Sequencing.
Authors: Allix-Béguec C, Arandjelovic I, Bi L, Beckert P, Bonnet M, Bradley P, Cabibbe AM, Cancino-Muñoz I, Caulfield MJ, Chaiprasert A, Cirillo DM, Clifton DA, Comas I, Crook DW, De Filippo MR, de Neeling H, Diel R, Drobniewski FA, Faksri K, Farhat MR, Fleming J, Fowler P, Fowler TA, Gao Q, Gardy J, Gascoyne-Binzi D, Gibertoni-Cruz AL, Gil-Brusola A, Golubchik T, Gonzalo X, Grandjean L, He G, Guthrie JL, Hoosdally S, Hunt M, Iqbal Z, Ismail N, Johnston J, Khanzada FM, Khor CC, Kohl TA, Kong C, Lipworth S, Liu Q, Maphalala G, Martinez E, Mathys V, Merker M, Miotto P, Mistry N, Moore DAJ, Murray M, Niemann S, Omar SV, Ong RT, Peto TEA, Posey JE, Prammananan T, Pym A, Rodrigues C, Rodrigues M, Rodwell T, Rossolini GM, Sánchez Padilla E, Schito M, Shen X, Shendure J, Sintchenko V, Sloutsky A, Smith EG, Snyder M, Soetaert K, Starks AM, Supply P, Suriyapol P, Tahseen S, Tang P, Teo YY, Thuong TNT, Thwaites G, Tortoli E, van Soolingen D, Walker AS, Walker TM, Wilcox M, Wilson DJ, Wyllie D, Yang Y, Zhang H, Zhao Y, Zhu B.
N Engl J Med
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Discovery of a unique Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein through proteomic analysis of urine from patients with active tuberculosis.
Authors: Pollock N, Dhiman R, Daifalla N, Farhat M, Campos-Neto A.
Microbes Infect
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Fluoroquinolone Resistance Mutation Detection Is Equivalent to Culture-Based Drug Sensitivity Testing for Predicting Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Outcome: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
Authors: Farhat MR, Jacobson KR, Franke MF, Kaur D, Murray M, Mitnick CD.
Clin Infect Dis
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Transmissible Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains Share Genetic Markers and Immune Phenotypes.
Authors: Nebenzahl-Guimaraes H, van Laarhoven A, Farhat MR, Koeken VACM, Mandemakers JJ, Zomer A, van Hijum SAFT, Netea MG, Murray M, van Crevel R, van Soolingen D.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
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Genetic Determinants of Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Their Diagnostic Value.
Authors: Farhat MR, Sultana R, Iartchouk O, Bozeman S, Galagan J, Sisk P, Stolte C, Nebenzahl-Guimaraes H, Jacobson K, Sloutsky A, Kaur D, Posey J, Kreiswirth BN, Kurepina N, Rigouts L, Streicher EM, Victor TC, Warren RM, van Soolingen D, Murray M.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
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Connectivity of diagnostic technologies: improving surveillance and accelerating tuberculosis elimination.
Authors: Andre E, Isaacs C, Affolabi D, Alagna R, Brockmann D, de Jong BC, Cambau E, Churchyard G, Cohen T, Delmee M, Delvenne JC, Farhat M, Habib A, Holme P, Keshavjee S, Khan A, Lightfoot P, Moore D, Moreno Y, Mundade Y, Pai M, Patel S, Nyaruhirira AU, Rocha LE, Takle J, Trébucq A, Creswell J, Boehme C.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
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