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Our Faculty & Scientists

One of our biggest accomplishments has been recruiting the best and brightest faculty and scientists to the NYGC. You can see and explore all of our current faculty below.

Core Faculty Associate Faculty Senior Scientific Staff Affiliate Members

Core Faculty

Gamze Gürsoy, PhD
Core Faculty Member, NYGC

Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Gürsoy Lab Biology, Genomics & Technology
Marcin Imieliński, MD, PhD
Core Faculty Member, NYGC

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Director Cancer Genomics Research Program, NYU Langone Imieliński Lab Cancer
David A. Knowles, PhD
Core Faculty Member, NYGC

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Columbia University; Interdisciplinary Appointee, Systems Biology, Columbia University; Affiliate Member, Data Science Institute, Columbia University Knowles Lab Biology, Genomics & Technology Technology Development
Dan A. Landau, MD, PhD
Core Faculty Member, NYGC

Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology; Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine Landau Lab Cancer
Hemali Phatnani, PhD
Core Faculty Member, Director, Center for Genomics of Neurodegenerative Disease, NYGC

Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology), Columbia University Phatnani Lab Neurodegenerative Disease
Neville Sanjana, PhD
Core Faculty Member, NYGC

Associate Professor of Biology, Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Sanjana Lab Biology, Genomics & Technology Cancer Neuropsychiatric Disease
Rahul Satija, PhD
Core Faculty Member, NYGC

Professor, Genomics & Systems Biology, NYU Satija Lab Biology, Genomics & Technology
Sanja Vicković, PhD
Core Faculty Member and Director, Technology Innovation Lab, NYGC

Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering and Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University; Wallenberg Academy Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences at Uppsala University Vicković Lab Biology, Genomics & Technology Technology Innovation
Chenxu Zhu, PhD
Core Faculty Member, NYGC

Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, WCM Zhu Lab Biology, Genomics & Technology Technology Development

Associate Faculty

Samuel Aparicio, BM, BCh, PhD, FRCPath, FRSC
Senior Scientific Director of Cancer Genomics, NYGC

Chair of Molecular Oncology, UBC/BC Cancer Agency Cancer
Mary-Claire King, PhD
Senior Associate Faculty Member, NYGC

American Cancer Society Professor in the Departments of Genome Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington King Lab Neuropsychiatric Disease
Tuuli Lappalainen, PhD
Senior Associate Faculty Member, NYGC

Director, National Genomics Infrastructure, SciLifeLab; Professor, KTH School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health; Former Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Lappalainen Lab Biology, Genomics & Technology
Simon Tavaré, PhD
Senior Associate Faculty Member, NYGC

Founding Director, Inst. of Cancer Dynamics; Professor, Statistics & Biological Sciences, Columbia University Tavaré Lab Cancer
Harold Varmus, MD
Senior Associate Faculty Member, NYGC

Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine Varmus Lab Cancer
Mike Wigler, PhD
Senior Associate Faculty Member, NYGC

Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Wigler Lab Neurodegenerative Disease
Ivan Iossifov, PhD
Associate Faculty Member, NYGC

Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Iossifov Lab Neuropsychiatric Disease
Onyinye Balogun, MD, MSc
Associate Faculty Member, NYGC

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Balogun Lab Cancer
Melissa B. Davis, PhD
Associate Faculty Member, NYGC

Director, Institute of Translational Genomic Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine; Scientific Director, International Center for the Study of Breast Cancer Subtypes (ICSBCS); Director of Health Equity, Englander Institute of Precision Medicine; Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine Davis Lab Cancer
Stephan Sanders, BMBS, PhD
Associate Faculty Member, NYGC

Professor, Neurogenetics, University of Oxford; Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco Sanders Lab Neurodegenerative Disease
Tarjinder (TJ) Singh, PhD
Associate Faculty Member, NYGC

Assistant Professor, Columbia Department of Psychiatry, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, NYS Psychiatric Institute Singh Lab Neurodegenerative Disease

Senior Scientific Staff

Soren Germer, PhD
Senior Vice President, Genome Technologies, NYGC

Biology, Genomics & Technology
Vaidehi Jobanputra, PhD, FACMG
Chief Diagnostics Officer, NYGC

Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Biology, Genomics & Technology Clinical Genetics
Michael Zody, PhD
Scientific Director, Computational Biology, NYGC

Biology, Genomics & Technology Computational Biology Lab
Nico Robine, PhD
Director, Computational Biology, Cancer and Functional Genomics, NYGC

Biology, Genomics & Technology Computational Biology Lab