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Soren Germer, PhD

Soren Germer, PhD, leads the sequencing and analytics teams at the New York Genome Center (NYGC), overseeing sequencing production, sequencing analytics, methods development, clinical sequencing and analytics, project management, software engineering, and computational biology. He was appointed to this position in January 2019. Dr. Germer joined NYGC in March of 2012 as a Sequencing Program […]

Marcin Imieliński, MD, PhD

Marcin Imieliński, MD, PhD, is a Core Faculty Member at the New York Genome Center. He holds a joint appointment as Director of Cancer Genomics at NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center. Dr. Imieliński is a board-certified molecular genetic pathologist. His research includes more than 40 peer-reviewed publications across several areas of genomics and computational […]

Hemali Phatnani, PhD

  Hemali Phatnani, PhD, is Core Faculty Member and Director of the Center for Genomics of Neurodegenerative Disease (CGND) at the New York Genome Center (NYGC). Dr. Phatnani has a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Medical Center. Her research focuses on gene regulatory mechanisms that underlie the complex interactions between […]

Neville Sanjana, PhD

Neville Sanjana, PhD, is a Core Faculty Member at the New York Genome Center. He holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at New York University and is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology at the NYU School of Medicine. As a bioengineer, Dr. Sanjana is focused on creating […]

Tom Maniatis, PhD

Dr. Maniatis leads the research and operational activities of the New York Genome Center (NYGC), which focus on the development of computational and experimental genomic methods and disease-focused research to better understand the genetic basis of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and neuropsychiatric diseases. He also directs NYGC’s faculty, who lead independent research labs based at the […]