Can research compensate bad GPA?

[medtophd]

Hi everyone, I'm asking for a evaluation of my profile as a biostat PhD applicant.

I have a unusual profile where I came to college as a med student, majored math for a while and is about to finish the remaining med courses. My country's (South Korea) med school is bachelor based like the UK. 

My med GPA is 2.62 at this point and is likely to remain the same after I finish my last year. I had 45 credits in math with 3.91/4.0 GPA. Advanced courses on graduate real analysis (red rudin based) and stochastic process (also measure theory based) were also took.

However, as you see, I wasn't competent as a medical student and devoted most of my time on research. I published two papers in IF 14-16 range genetics journals (both 1st author). My research topic were efficient methods for high dim. genetic data and application of causal inference on genetic data.

I'm planning to apply for a biostat PhD (or an epidemiology PhD with focus on methodology and causal inference) but I'm worried about my poor med GPA. Will the two publications in top journals be sufficient to overcome the poor GPA?