We are located at the Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medicine (part of the tri-institutional program) and the New York Genome Center.
Dan Landau, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Core Member, New York Genome Center
Graduate program memberships:
Weill Cornell Graduate School | Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology
Tri-Institutional PhD Program | Computational Biology & Medicine
Training and Experience
MD, Tel Aviv University, 1995 - 2002
PhD, Paris Diderot University, 2010 - 2013
Internal Medicine residency, Yale New Haven Hospital, 2007 - 2009
Hematology and Medical Oncology fellowship, Yale Cancer Center, 2009 - 2014
Post Doctoral training, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute, 2011 - 2014
Instructor of Medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute, 2014 - 2015
Federico Gaiti, Ph.D
Post Doctoral fellow
B.Sc Biology,University of Bologna, Italy, 2009
M.Sc Marine Biology, University of Bologna, Italy & UC Santa Barbara, 2012
Ph.D Evolutionary Biology and Genomics, University of Queensland, Australia, 2016
(Degnan lab: Molecular biology and Evolution 2015)
Nir Ben-Chetrit, Ph.D
Post Doctoral fellow
B.Sc Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Israel, 2005
M.Sc Life Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2008
Ph.D Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2013
(Yarden Lab: Sci Signal, 2015a and Sci Signal, 2015b)
Research fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2013 - 2015
Franco Izzo, Ph.D
Post Doctoral fellow
M.Sc Biological Science, Buenos Aires University, Argentina, 2010
Ph.D Biology, Buenos Aires University, Argentina, 2015
(Laboratory of Molecular Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis: Breast Cancer Res, 2014,
and Mol Endocrinol)
Nathaniel Omans, M.S
PhD student, Computational Biomedicine PhD Tri-I program
B.S Biology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, 2014
M.S Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2015
Jesus Sotelo, B.Sc
Technical assistant
B.Sc Biology, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, NY, 2014
Adam Widman, M.D
Medical Oncology Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering
BS, Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
MD, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, 2014
Internal Medicine Residency, Columbia University Medical Center, NY, 2017
Jake Bass, M.Eng
Data Analyst / AI
B.A. Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2018
M.Eng. Computer Science, Cornell Tech, New York, NY, 2019
Robert Myers, B.Sc
MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
B.Sc Biology, The College of New Jersey, NJ 2014
Joshua Schiffman, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
B.S. Evolution, Ecology & Biodiversity, University of California, Davis, CA, 2010
Ph.D. Molecular & Computational Biology, University of Southern California, CA, 2018
Neville Dusaj, M.S
MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
BA, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, PA 2016
MS, Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, PA 2016
Allegra Hawkins, PhD
Post doctoral fellow (F99/K00)
BSc, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2014
M.Sc, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2018
Ph.D University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2018
Steve Niu, M.Sc
Graduate Student, Tri-I CBM Program
BS, Cell Biology, UC Davis, CA, 2015
MS, Biology, NYU, NY, 2017
Paulina Chamely, M.S
Bioinformatics Analyst
B.S Biomedical Computation, Stanford University, CA, 2018
M.S Biology, Stanford University, CA, 2019
Rekha Murali, B.S
Graduate Student, Tri-I CBM program
BS, Biology, Ohio State University, OH 2014
Cole Khamnei, B.S
Data Analyst / AI
B.S. Engineering Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2019
Ariel Swett, B.S
Research Technician
B.S. Molecular and Cellular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, MD, 2020
Jane Park, B.S
Lab manager
B.S. Environmental Systems, University of California, San Diego, 2014.
Ramya Raviram, Ph.D
Post doctoral fellow
B.S, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (minor), Rutgers University, 2009
Ph.D, Computational Biology, New York University, 2017
(Skok and Bonneau labs)
Post Doctoral fellow (Ren lab), Ruth L Kirschtein T32 fellow, University of California San Diego, 2017-2020
Alumni
Asaf Zviran, Ph.D
Post Doctoral fellow (2016-2019), EMBO post doctoral fellowship awardee
Current: CEO, C2I Genomics
B.Sc Physics and Electrical Engineering,Technion, Israel, 2003
M.Sc Operations Research, Technion, Israel, 2011
Ph.D Biology,Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2016
Kyu-Tae Kim, Ph.D
Post Doctoral fellow (2016-2019).
Current: Assistant Professor, Ajou University School of Medicine, Korea
Ph.D Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2015
Research fellow, Samsung Genome Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, 2013 - 2017
Andrew Lipsky, M.D
Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellow (2017-2020)
Current: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University
B.A. Philosophy, Brown University, RI, 2007
M.D. Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ, 2013
Medicine Residency, Montefiore Medical Center, NY, 2016
Anna Nam, M.D
Hematopathology fellow (2017-2020), BWF and DP5 awardee
Current: Assistant Professor of Pathology, Weill Cornell Medicine
B.Sc Chemistry, Davidson College, NC, 2009
M.D University of Missouri, MO, 2014
Anatomic Pathology Residency, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY, 2016
Ronan Chaligne, Ph.D
Post Doctoral fellow (2016-2020), LRF Innovation Award and Marie Curie EU fellowship recipient
Current: Head, Single Cell Research Initiative, Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center
B.Sc Cellular Biology and Physiology, Evry, France, 2004
Ph.D Oncology, with distinction, Institut Gustave Roussy, France, 2009
Nathaniel Omans, M.S
Lab manager (2016-2017), Current: Computational Biomedicine PhD Tri-I program
B.S Biology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, 2014
M.S Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2015
Kevin Huang, B.S
Bioinformatics Associate (2017-2018), Current: MD student, UC Irvine
B.S. Biomedical engineering, Applied Math and Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, MD, 2017
Steven Hill, M.Sc
Data Analyst / AI (2016-2018), Current: Freenome
B.Sc Computer Science, Oregon State University, OR, 2014
M.Sc Computer Science, Oregon State University, OR, 2016
Ryan Brand, M.Sc
Data Analyst / AI (2017-2019)
Current: Amazon
B.A Mathematics, Williams College, MA, 2013
M.Sc Computer Science (Computational Biology), Columbia University, NY, 2018
Kristofer Patel, B.Sc
Liquid biopsy specialist (2018-2019)
Current: C2I Genomics
B.Sc Biochemistry, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2016
Rafael Schulman, B.Sc
Bioinformatics Associate (2016-2019), current: C2I Genomics
B.Sc. Integrative Neuroscience, Binghamton University (SUNY), New York, 2016
B.A. Evolutionary Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY), New York, 2016
Sunil D. Deochand, B.S
Analyst (2017-2019), current: C2I Genomics
B.S. Mathematics, Stoney Brook University, NY, 2016
M.S. Computational Biology, NYU, NY, 2018
Patrick Bolan, M.D
M.D. student (2017-2020). current: Stanford IM residency
B.S. Biology, Boston College, MA, 2011
Chelston Ang, M.Eng
Lab manager (2018-2020).
Current: MD/PhD student, University of North Carolina
B.S. Biological Engineering, Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, NY, 2016
M.Eng Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, NY, 2017
Gavriel Mullokandov, MD, PhD
Pathology, Physician Scientist Training Program, Weill Cornell Medicine (2018-2020). Current: GhostTree ventures
BA, Biochemistry, Columbia University, New York City, NY, 2007
Research Fellow, Tawfik Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2007-2008
MD/PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY 2017