Sufyan Suleman

Research, Software, and Open Science

Computational biologist and geneticist studying metabolic and psychiatric disease, with a background in biotechnology and molecular biology. Postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University and the Broad Institute; builds open-source R tools, reproducible pipelines and courses that make genomic and clinical data more usable.

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Open to collaborations, tool support and teaching requests. Email me

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University

Affiliate Scientist, NNF Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Metabolic Disease GeneticsInsulin GeneticsT2D and ObesityPsychiatric GeneticsGenomics

Featured

Research tools

A selection of open-source packages built for clinical, metabolic, and genomic research workflows.

HealthMarkers

Clinical, metabolic and cardiovascular biomarker calculations in R

InsuSensCalc

Insulin sensitivity indices from fasting, OGTT, adipose and tracer data

IsletCalc

Surrogate indices of pancreatic islet hormone release from fasting and OGTT measurements

Research output

Latest publications

Recent peer-reviewed work.

2026Article
Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Glycogen Storage Diseases through Exome Sequencing: A Study in Pediatric Patients
2026 · Article
Maryam Naseer, Muhammad Tariq, Nadia Waheed, Bushra Khan, Dost Muhammad Kalhoro, Shahid Ali, Hammal Khan, Amir Hussain, Naseeb Ullah Kakar, Abid Ali Shah, Sufyan Suleman, Asmat Ullah
Molecular Syndromology · 2026
Rare disease genetics

2025Article
Exploring the genetic intersection between obesity-associated genetic variants and insulin sensitivity indices
2025 · Article
Sufyan Suleman, Lars Ängquist, Allan Linneberg, Torben Frøstrup Hansen, Niels Grarup
Scientific Reports · 2025 · 15(1):15761
ObesityInsulin resistance
2025Conference
Unraveling shared biological mechanisms of depression and Body Mass Index
2025 · Conference
European Journal of Human Genetics · 2025
Psychiatric genomicsObesity

All publications

Work with me

How I can help

Support with the tools

Applying HealthMarkers, InsuSensCalc or IsletCalc to your cohort, adapting indices, or building a reproducible pipeline around them.

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Courses on demand

R, statistics, CDISC and post-GWAS methods for research groups, departments and companies, on site or online.

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Research collaboration

Genetics of metabolic and psychiatric traits, polygenic scores, biomarker studies.

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Open Science

Every tool and course on this site is released openly so other researchers can reuse, verify, and build on the work, from documented software packages to complete course materials.

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