People

The Team

Eliezer Van Allen, MD - Principal Investigator

Dr. Van Allen is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a clinician at Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care, and an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His research focuses on computational cancer genomics, the application of new molecular profiling technologies to advance precision cancer medicine, and studying resistance to cancer therapeutics. As both a computational biologist and medical oncologist, he has specific expertise in clinical computational oncology and the development of algorithms to analyze and interpret genomic data for clinically focused questions. Overall, his research will make important contributions to the field of precision cancer medicine and resistance to targeted therapeutics via expertise and study in translational and clinical bioinformatics.

Originally from Los Angeles, CA, he studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford University, obtained his M.D. from UCLA, and completed a residency in internal medicine at UCSF before coming to Boston and completing a medical oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care program.

Jihye Park, PhD
Lead Scientist

Lauren Miller-Jones, BA
Lab Administrator

Saud AlDubayan, MD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Saud is a board-certified clinical geneticist and computational biologist in the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at DFCI. Saud obtained his Medical Doctorate degree in 2009 and has done clinical training in adult medicine at the University of Toronto as well as clinical genetics and genomics at Harvard Medical School. Saud also did postdoctoral research training in computational biology at DFCI/Broad as well as translational genomics at Harvard Clinical and Translational Academy. In addition to clinically evaluating patients with inherited cancer-predisposition syndromes, Saud is also a dedicated scientist whose research interest has focused on exploring the utility of integrative DNA-repair centered analyses of paired germline and tumor genetic and transcriptomic data for informing clinical decision making. Saud’s current research work aims to explore novel inherited and somatic genomic predictors of cancer risk, cancer progression and chemoresistance in large cohorts of cancer patients.

Kevin Bi, BS
Computuational Biologist (single cell analysis)

Sabrina Camp, BS
Associate Computational Biologist (germline-somatic interactions)

Filipe Carvalho, MD, PhD
Urologic Oncology Fellow

Jake Conway, BS (Bioinformatics)
Graduate Student, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics

Alexis Coolidge, BA
HMS MD Pathways

Jett Crowdis, BS
Computational Biologist

Felix Dietlein, MD, PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Ziad ElBakouny, MD
Research Fellow

Haitham Elmarakeby, PhD (Computer Science)
Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Jingxin Fu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Pauline Gabrieli, BA
Masters Student, Biomedical Informatics

Riaz Gillani, MD
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow (Boston Children's Hospital)

Seunghun Han, BS
Graduate Student, BBS

Meng Xiao He, AB (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
Graduate Student, Biophysics
Meng Xiao is a student in the Harvard Biophysics PhD program. In the Van Allen lab, he mainly focuses on single-cell RNA-sequencing but is broadly interested in genetics. Having worked as a software engineer before returning to Harvard, he is interested in practical uses for his training in biology and computer science.

Alma Imamovic, MS
Computational Biologist

Bowen Jiang
Undergraduate Research Student

Shreya Johri, BTech
Computational Biologist

Kathryn Li, BS
HST MD student

Aditi Limaye
Undergraduate Research Student

Gha Young Lee, BS
HST MD student

Nicita Mehta, BS
Graduate Student, BIG

Kevin Meli, BS
Graduate Student, BBS

Surya Narayana, BS
Computational Biologist

Jackson Nyman, BS
Graduate Student, Systems Biology

Theodora Pappa, MD/PhD
BWH Endocrinology Fellow

Erica Pimenta, MD/PhD
Medical Oncology Fellow, Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care

Brendan Reardon, BS (Physics)
Computational Biologist
Brendan originally conducted research in astrophysics while studying physics at Brandeis University before migrating to computational biology and clinical computational oncology. His research is now motivated by the goal of improving clinical interpretation in cancer genomics, especially through integrative approaches.

Cora Ricker, BS
Computational Biologist

Keyan Salari MD, PhD
Instructor, Urologic Oncology (MGH)

Julia Schiantarelli, BS
HST MD program

Maha Shady, BS, MEng
Graduate student, BIG (Co-mentored with Dr. Shamil Sunyaev)

Breanna Titchen, BS
Graduate student, BBS

Alok Tewari, MD/PhD
Instructor, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Lab Alumni

David Liu, MD, MPH, MS - Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber/Harvard Medical School

Travis Zack, MD, PhD - UCSF Internal Medicine/Medical Oncology

Daniel Keliher - Mathematics PhD program, Tufts University

Allison Chang, MD, PhD - BWH Internal Medicine

Paris Ghazi - Undergraduate, Cornell University

Nate Moore, MD - University of Cincinnati Internal Medicine

Alicia Smart, MD (HST) - Harvard Radiation Oncology program

Garam Celine Han, PhD - BMS ImmunoOncology

Noora J. Al-Muftah, MS - University of Oxford PhD Program

Diana Miao, MD (HST) - OB/Gyn residency (Johns Hopkins)

Eric Kofman, BS (Computer Science) - UCSD PhD Program

Nisarg Patel, DMD - UCSF Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery / MD Program

Amaro Taylor-Weiner, PhD (Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics) - Scientist, Path.AI

Shirley Mo (HST), MD - Internal Medicine, UCSF

Anran (Angel) Tang, BS, MS - Gerstner Sloan Kettering Cancer Biology PhD program

Natalie Vokes, MD, MPhil - Assistant Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Derek Liu, BS (HST MD program)

Sophia Kamran, MD - Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology (MGH)

Stephanie Wankowicz - UCSF PhD Program

Claire Margolis, BS (Computer Science), MS (Biomedical Informatics) - Verana Health

Alexander "Scanner" Cheung, BS, MBHL - NYU School of Medicine

Vidal Arroyo, BS - University of Oxford (Rhodes)

Daniel Boiarsky, MD - Internal Medicine, Tufts

Nicholas Moore, MD - Radiation Oncology, Yale

David Konieczkowski, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University (Radiation Oncology)

Alice Bosma-Moody, BS
HST MD Program

Alice (Xiaoou) Wang, BA, MS (Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School)

Tanya Keenan, MD MPH - Principal Scientist, Early Oncology Clinical Research (Merck)

The Team

Lab Alumni

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