People

The Team

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.

Jihye Park, PhD
Lead Scientist

Lauren Miller-Jones, BA
Lab Administrator

Erin Shannon, BS
Sr. Research Project Data Manager

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.

Sabrina Camp, MS
Software Engineer II

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

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

Noah Fields, MS
Computational Biologist

Amanda Garza, PhD
Senior Scientist

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

Sharon Jiang, BS, MEng
HST MD Program

Claire Johnson, BS
HMS BIG PhD program

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

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

Julie Karam, BS
Computational Biologist

Katelyn Li, BA
HST MD Student

Gwen Miller, BA
HMS BIG PhD program

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

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.

Ahmed Roman, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow

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

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

Parker Simpson, MS
Computational Biologist

Emma Su
Undergraduate Research Associate

Breanna Titchen, BS
HMS BBS PhD program

Matías Vergara, MS
Computational Biologist

Sherin Xirenayi, BS
HMS SSQB PhD program

David Yang, MD
Instructor, Harvard Radiation Oncology Program

Lab Alumni

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

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

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

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

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 | Director, Data Science & Strategic Data Biopharma Business Development, Caris Life Sciences

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

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

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) - VP of Machine Learning (Path.AI) | Chief AI officer (Absci)

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) - Internal Medicine (Stanford University)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stephanie Wankowicz - PhD Program (UCSF) | Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics (Vanderbilt)

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

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

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 - Internal Medicine (Brigham & Women's Hospital)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kathryn Li, BS
HST MD student

Alma Imamovic, MS
Computational Biologist

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

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

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

David Borer, BS (Fulbright Scholar)

Cora Ricker, BS
Computational Biologist (Pediatric Oncology)

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

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

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

Kevin Meli, PhD (BBS)
RBC

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

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

The Team

Lab Alumni

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