People

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 through 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

Lauren Miller-Jones, BA
Lab Administrator

Erin Shannon, BS
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.

Kevin Bi, BS
Computuational Biologist (single cell analysis)

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

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

Ryan Collins, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow (jointly with Gusev and Haigis Labs)

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

Jingxin Fu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Amanda Garza, PhD
Research Scientist

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

Marc Glettig, MSc
Computational Biologist

Seunghun Han, BS
Graduate Student, BBS

Samantha Hoffman, BS
HMS BBS MD/PhD Student

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

Yun Jee Kang, MD
General Surgery Resident, Research Fellow

Chris Labaki, MD
Postdoctoral research fellow

Yuxi Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Nicita Mehta, BS
Graduate Student, BIG

Kevin Meli, BS
Graduate Student, BBS

Gwen Miller, BA
Graduate Student, BIG

Jackson Nyman, BS
Graduate Student, Systems Biology

Theodora Pappa, MD/PhD
BWH Endocrinology Instructor

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

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

Matías Vergara, MS
Computational Biologist

David Yang, MD
Resident, Harvard Radiation Oncology Program

Laura Valderrábano, BA
Computational Biologist

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 | Visiting Assistant Professor in Mathematics, University of Georgia

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) - 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

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

Shreya Johri, BTech (Computational Biologist) - HMS BBS PhD program

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

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 - 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

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

The Team

Lab Alumni

Interested in joining the lab? Contact us!