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Van Allen Lab - Clinical Computational Oncology

Eliezer Van Allen, MD
CLINICAL COMPUTATIONAL ONCOLOGY

The Team

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Eliezer Van Allen, MD - Principal Investigator

Dr. Eliezer (Eli) Van Allen is Chief of the Division of Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Chandra Nohria Family Chair for AI in Cancer Research at Dana-Farber, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also an Institute Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and a Member Researcher in The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. As both a medical oncologist and computational biologist, he develops algorithms to dissect high-dimensional data directly from cancer patients and uses these insights to address major open questions in the field. Dr. Van Allen’s research has led to significant advances in understanding the molecular origins of cancer, using artificial intelligence to discover novel resistance mechanisms to cancer therapies, and defining how genomics can guide clinical decision-making. Through these initiatives, he created the field of clinical computational oncology to advance and enable precision cancer medicine worldwide.

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.


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Jihye Park, PhD
Lead Scientist

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Lauren Miller-Jones, BA
​Lab Administrator


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Erin Shannon, BS
Sr. Research Project Data Manager


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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.

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Sabrina Camp, MS
Software Engineer II

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Ryan Collins, PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School (jointly with Gusev and Haigis Labs)

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

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Noah Fields, MS
Computational Biologist

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Amanda Garza, PhD
Senior Scientist

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Alex Haas, M.Sc.
Heidelberg University MD Program (Visiting Scholar)

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Sharon Jiang, BS, MEng
​HST MD Program

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Claire Johnson, BS
HMS BIG PhD program

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Shreya Johri, BTech
HMS BBS PhD program (co-mentored with Rajpurkar Lab)

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Alexander Jordan, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow (Co-mentored with Drs. Nowak and Aguirre)

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Julie Karam, BS
Computational Biologist

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Katelyn Li, BA
HST MD Student

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Gwen Miller, BA
HMS BIG PhD program

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Tess O'Meara, MD, MHS
​Medical Oncology Fellow, Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care

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

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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.

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Ahmed Roman, PhD
​Post-doctoral Fellow

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Eddy Saad, MD
Post-doctoral Fellow (Co-mentored with Dr. Toni Choueiri)

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Maha Shady, BS, MEng
HMS BIG PhD program (Co-mentored with Dr. Shamil Sunyaev)

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Parker Simpson, MS
​Computational Biologist

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Emma Su
Undergraduate Research Associate

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Breanna Titchen, BS
HMS BBS PhD program

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Matías Vergara, MS
Computational Biologist

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Sherin Xirenayi, BS
HMS SSQB PhD program

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David Yang, MD
Instructor, Harvard Radiation Oncology Program

Lab Alumni

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


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Travis Zack, MD, PhD - UCSF Internal Medicine/Medical Oncology | Assistant Professor (Medicine) at UCSF 

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Daniel Keliher - Mathematics PhD program, Tufts University | Visiting Assistant Professor in Mathematics, University of Georgia | Mathematics Lecturer, MIT

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Allison Chang, MD, PhD - BWH Internal Medicine, DF/HCC Medical Oncology Fellowship


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Paris Ghazi - Undergraduate, Cornell University

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Nate Moore, MD - University of Cincinnati Internal Medicine

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

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Garam Celine Han, PhD - BMS ImmunoOncology | Director, Data Science & Strategic Data Biopharma Business Development, Caris Life Sciences 

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

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Diana Miao, MD (HST) - OB/Gyn residency (Johns Hopkins) | Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship (BWH)

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


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

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Amaro Taylor-Weiner, PhD (Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics) - VP of Machine Learning (Path.AI) | Chief AI officer (Absci)

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


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

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

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Derek Liu, BS (HST MD program) - Internal Medicine (Stanford University)

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

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Meng Xiao He, PhD (Biophysics) - Senior Scientist, Genentech

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Ziad ElBakouny, MD - Internal Medicine, BWH | Medical Oncology Fellow, MSKCC

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Jake Conway, PhD (Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics) - Scientist, Path.AI

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Gha Young Lee, BS (HST MD student) - MIT PhD Chemistry Program

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Felix Dietlein, MD, PhD (Instructor, Harvard Medical School) - Assistant Professor, Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School

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

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Iggy Im, BS (Undergraduate Research Student) - Computational Biologist, MIT

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Bowen Jiang (Undergraduate Research Student) - Masters Program in Biomedical Computation, Stanford University

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Alina Shen, BA
HMS Immunology M.M.Sc. program

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Aditi Limaye (Undergraduate Research Student) - Harvard Medical School MD student

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Chris Labaki, MD (Postdoctoral research fellow) - Internal Medicine, BIDMC

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Hoyin Chu, BS (Computational Biologist (jointly with Dr. AlDubayan Group) - Graduate student, Tri-I NYC Program

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Jingxin Fu, PhD (Postdoctoral research fellow) - Research Scientist, Breast Oncology Group, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Seunghun Han, PhD (​Graduate Student, BBS) - Scientist, Oncology Bioinformatics, Moderna

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Camille Mathey-Andrews, MD
General Surgery Resident, TOPS Postdoctoral Fellow

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Yuxi Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow - Wang Lab (BWH/HMS/HSPH)

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Nicita Mehta, PhD (BIG)
HMS MD/PhD Student

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Andréanne Gagné, MD, PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow in Pathology with Drs. Lynette Sholl & Peter Sorger)
Assistant Professor, Laval University
Pathologist, ​Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec

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Laura Valderrábano, BA (​Computational Biologist)
Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine


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Riaz Gillani, MD (Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Instructor (Boston Children's Hospital))
Independent Faculty, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Boston Children's Hospital


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Kevin Bi, BS (Scientist II - single cell analysis)
Senior Computational Scientist, Broad Institute 



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Stephanie Wankowicz - PhD Program (UCSF) | Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics (Vanderbilt)
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Claire Margolis, BS (Computer Science), MS (Biomedical Informatics) - Verana Health | Verily


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Alexander "Scanner" Cheung, BS, MBHL - NYU School of Medicine (MD) | Neurosurgery Residency (Barrow Neurological Institute)


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Vidal Arroyo, BS - University of Oxford (Rhodes)

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Daniel Boiarsky, MD - Internal Medicine, Tufts

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Nicholas Moore, MD - Radiation Oncology, Yale


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

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Alice Bosma-Moody, BS
HST MD Program - Internal Medicine (Brigham & Women's Hospital)

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

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

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Alexis Coolidge, MD (HMS) - Internal Medicine, MGH


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Jett Crowdis, BS - Medical Student (Harvard Medical School)

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Pauline Gabrieli, BA, MS (Biomedical Informatics) - Bain Capital Life Sciences, Medical Student (Harvard Medical School)

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Filipe Carvalho, MD, PhD (​Urologic Oncology Fellow) - Assistant Professor, Brigham & Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School (Urology)

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Keyan Salari MD, PhD - (Instructor, Urologic Oncology)
​Assistant Professor, MGH & Harvard Medical School

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Caroline Canning, BS, MS (HMS Biomedical Informatics Masters student) - Medical Student (Northwestern University)

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Karthik Nair, MEng (MIT) - Medical Student (NYU)


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Surya Narayanan, BS (Computational Biologist) - CalTech Biology PhD program

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Kathryn Li, BS
HST MD student

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Alma Imamovic, MS
​Computational Biologist

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Jackson Nyman, PhD (Systems Biology) - Machine Learning Engineer, Path.AI


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Julia Schiantarelli, MD (HST MD program) - Pediatrics Residency Program, Boston Children's Hospital

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Irbaz Riaz, MD, PhD, MS, MBI (Biomedical Informatics) - Assistant Professor, Alix School of Medicine at Mayo Clinic

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David Borer, BS (Fulbright Scholar)

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Cora Ricker, BS
​Computational Biologist (Pediatric Oncology)

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Samantha Hoffman, PhD (BBS)
HMS MD/PhD Student

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Marc Glettig, MSc (Computational Biologist)
ETH Zurich, PhD Student

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Yun Jee Kang, MD (Research Fellow)
General Surgery Resident, BWH

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Kevin Meli, PhD (BBS)
RBC

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Marc Harary, BA (​Computational Biologist [jointly with the Lotter Lab])
Columbia PhD Student


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Theodora Pappa, MD/PhD (Post-Doctoral Fellow & Instructor)
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School & BWH Endocrinology

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