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
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Gamze Gürsoy, PhD
Core Faculty Member, NYGCHerbert Irving Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Gürsoy Lab Biology, Genomics & Technology -
Marcin Imieliński, MD, PhD
Core Faculty Member, NYGCAssociate 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, NYGCAssistant 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, NYGCProfessor 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, NYGCAssistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology), Columbia University Phatnani Lab Neurodegenerative Disease -
Neville Sanjana, PhD
Core Faculty Member, NYGCAssociate Professor of Biology, Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Sanjana Lab Biology, Genomics & Technology Cancer Neuropsychiatric Disease -
Rahul Satija, PhD
Core Faculty Member, NYGC -
Sanja Vicković, PhD
Core Faculty Member and Director, Technology Innovation Lab, NYGCAssistant 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, NYGCAssistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, WCM Zhu Lab Biology, Genomics & Technology Technology Development
Associate Faculty
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Samuel Aparicio, BM, BCh, PhD, FRCPath, FRSC
Senior Scientific Director of Cancer Genomics, NYGCChair of Molecular Oncology, UBC/BC Cancer Agency Cancer -
Mary-Claire King, PhD
Senior Associate Faculty Member, NYGCAmerican 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, NYGCDirector, 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, NYGCFounding Director, Inst. of Cancer Dynamics; Professor, Statistics & Biological Sciences, Columbia University Tavaré Lab Cancer -
Harold Varmus, MD
Senior Associate Faculty Member, NYGC -
Mike Wigler, PhD
Senior Associate Faculty Member, NYGC -
Ivan Iossifov, PhD
Associate Faculty Member, NYGC -
Onyinye Balogun, MD, MSc
Associate Faculty Member, NYGCAssistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Balogun Lab Cancer -
Melissa B. Davis, PhD
Associate Faculty Member, NYGCDirector, 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, NYGCProfessor, Neurogenetics, University of Oxford; Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco Sanders Lab Neurodegenerative Disease -
Tarjinder (TJ) Singh, PhD
Associate Faculty Member, NYGCAssistant Professor, Columbia Department of Psychiatry, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, NYS Psychiatric Institute Singh Lab Neurodegenerative Disease
Senior Scientific Staff
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Soren Germer, PhD
Senior Vice President, Genome Technologies, NYGC -
Vaidehi Jobanputra, PhD, FACMG
Chief Diagnostics Officer, NYGCProfessor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Biology, Genomics & Technology Clinical Genetics -
Thomas Lehner, PhD, MPH
Scientific Director, Neuropsychiatric Disease Genomics, NYGC -
Michael Zody, PhD
Scientific Director, Computational Biology, NYGC -
Nico Robine, PhD
Director, Computational Biology, Cancer and Functional Genomics, NYGC