The Team

Eliezer Van Allen, MD - Principal Investigator

Dr. Van Allen is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His research focuses on computational cancer genomics, the application of new molecular technologies to advance precision cancer medicine, and studying resistance to cancer therapeutics using advances in artificial intelligence. As both a computational biologist and medical oncologist, he has specific focus on clinical computational oncology and the development of algorithms to analyze and interpret genomic data for clinically focused questions. Overall, his research contributes to the field of precision cancer medicine and resistance to cancer therapeutics to directly impact cancer care. 

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

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Lauren Miller-Jones, BA
​Lab Administrator

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Erin Shannon, BS
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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Kevin Bi, BS
Computuational Biologist (single cell analysis)

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

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Hoyin Chu, BS
Computational Biologist (germline-somatic interactions; jointly with Dr. AlDubayan Group)

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

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Jingxin Fu, PhD
​Postdoctoral Fellow

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

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Marc Glettig, MSc
​Computational Biologist

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Seunghun Han, BS
​Graduate Student, BBS

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Samantha Hoffman, BS
HMS BBS MD/PhD Student

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Alma Imamovic, MS
​Computational Biologist

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Bowen Jiang
​Undergraduate Research Student

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Shreya Johri, BTech
Computational Biologist

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Chris Labaki, MD
Postdoctoral research fel

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Kathryn Li, BS
HST MD student

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Aditi Limaye
​Undergraduate Research Student

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

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Nicita Mehta, BS
​Graduate Student, BIG

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Kevin Meli, BS
​Graduate Student, BBS

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Surya Narayanan, BS
Computational Biologist

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Jackson Nyman, BS
Graduate Student, Systems Biology

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Theodora Pappa, MD/PhD
BWH Endocrinology Fellow

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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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Cora Ricker, BS
​Computational Biologist

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Julia Schiantarelli, BS
​HST MD program

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

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

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Breanna Titchen, BS
Graduate student, BBS

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Matías Vergara, MS
Computational Biologist

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David Yang, MD
Resident, Harvard Radiation Oncology Program

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Lab Alumni

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

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Daniel Keliher - Mathematics PhD program, Tufts University

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Allison Chang, MD, PhD - BWH Internal Medicine

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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

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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)

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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) - Scientist, Path.AI

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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

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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)

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Stephanie Wankowicz - UCSF PhD Program
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Claire Margolis, BS (Computer Science), MS (Biomedical Informatics) - Verana Health

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

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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

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Filipe Carvalho, MD, PhD (​Urologic Oncology Fellow) - Independent Faculty, Brigham & Women's Hospital (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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