Rami Mehio profile page

Mehio is the head of Software and Informatics development at Illumina. He joined Illumina in 2018 as part of the Edico Genome acquisition where he led the development of DRAGEN BioIT solution, as head of engineering. Today, Mehio oversees instrument software development, cloud platforms, bioinformatics and clinical software. Over the past few years, Mehio’s organization has established Illumina as a leading provider in informatics, delivering innovative, reliable software products developed in deep collaboration with KOLs. Mehio has built a world-class team at Illumina for informatics. Mehio has increased direct software’s contribution to Illumina’s annual revenue six-fold over the past three years. His reach extends beyond Illumina and he has established partnerships with the Broad Institute, NVIDIA, GeL, AstraZeneca, Baylor College of Medicine and other key opinion leaders that drive informatics forward. During his time at Illumina, Rami has unified all bioinformatics solutions under the DRAGEN framework and established DRAGEN as an accurate, trusted and widely used pipeline suite for genetic disease, oncology research and multiomics discovery.