Multidisciplinary Approach

The Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine is a translational research hub, where a team of clinicians, basic scientists, pathologists, and computational biologists direct their collective expertise to pinpoint the molecular underpinnings of disease and spur the discovery of novel therapies.

Core Team

Olivier Elemento
Olivier Elemento
EIPM Director
Olivier Elemento, Ph.D., is the Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine (EIPM). He is also a Tenured  Professor in the...
Alicia Alonso
Alicia Alonso
Director of Innovation
Alicia Alonso, Ph.D., MSc, is Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology Research in Medicine, and Scientific Director, Epigenetics Core, at the...
Jeff Catalano
Jeff Catalano
Associate Director of IPM Administration
Jeff Catalano is the Associate Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine for IPM Administration. Accomplished healthcare...
Massimo Cristofanilli
Massimo Cristofanilli
Scientific Director
Massimo Cristofanilli, M.D. is the Scientific Director of the EIPM. In early 2022, Dr. Massimo Cristofanilli joined the Englander Institute as...
Melissa B. Davis
Melissa B. Davis
Director of Health Equity
Melissa B. Davis, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Surgery, Scientific Director of the International...
Pinkal Desai
Pinkal Desai
EIPM Molecular Aging Institute's Clinical Director
Pinkal Desai, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the WCM Hematology and Medical Oncology Department and is the Charles, Lillian, and...
Bishoy Faltas
Bishoy Faltas
Director of Bladder Cancer Research
Bishoy Morris Faltas, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and an Assistant Attending in the Genitourinary...
Shauna L. Houlihan
Shauna L. Houlihan
Associate Director of Liver Research
Shauna L. Houlihan, Ph.D. is Associate Director of Liver Research at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine...
Pashtoon Kasi
Pashtoon Kasi
Director for Liquid Biopsy Research
Pashtoon Kasi, M.D. is the EIPM Director for Liquid Biopsy Research Dr. Kasi joined the Englander Institute as Director for Liquid Biopsy...
Theresa MacDonald
Theresa MacDonald
Director of Strategy
Theresa MacDonald is Director of Strategy at the Englander Institute. In this role, she is responsible for developing strategic plans and new...
M. Laura Martin
M. Laura Martin
Ex Vivo Models Director
M. Laura Martin, Ph.D., leads efforts in the utilization of patient-derived models of cancer, studying the functional impact of genetic and...
Juan Miguel Mosquera
Juan Miguel Mosquera
Director of Research Pathology
Juan Miguel Mosquera, M.D., MSc., is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, an Attending Pathologist at the...
Omar Abdul-Rahman
Omar Abdul-Rahman
Director of Clinical Genetics
Dr. Abdul-Rahman is the Director of Clinical Genetics at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. “I look forward...
Laura Santambrogio
Laura Santambrogio
Associate Director for Precision Immunology
Laura Santambrogio, M.D., Ph.D., is the Associate Director for Precision Immunology at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. She also...
Andrea Sboner
Andrea Sboner
Director of Informatics and Computational Biology
Andrea Sboner, Ph.D., is the Director of Informatics and Computational Biology and an Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in...
EIPM Members
Nasser Altorki
Nasser Altorki
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Nasser Altorki, M.D., is a Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Director of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at New York Presbyterian-Weill...
Niroshana Anandasabapathy
Niroshana Anandasabapathy
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Niroshana Anandasabapathy, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Attending Dermatologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Associate Professor of...
Eleni Andreopoulou
Eleni Andreopoulou
Breast Center Research Director
Eleni Andreopoulou, M.D., completed her training in major academic institutions in both Europe and the U.S. In addition to her active clinical...
Karla Ballman
Karla Ballman
Chief of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Karla Ballman, Ph.D., specializes in designing clinical trials, analyzing complex data, and developing molecular signatures that can help predict...
Christopher Barbieri
Christopher Barbieri
Assistant Professor
Christopher Barbieri, M.D., is a urologic surgeon whose long-term goal is the definition of distinct molecular classes of prostate cancer...
Doron Betel
Doron Betel
Assistant Professor
Doron Betel, Ph.D. is the bioinformatics director of the Epigenomics Core Facility where he leads a team of software developers and...
Kristy A. Brown
Kristy A. Brown
Assistant Professor
Kristy A. Brown, Ph.D., is interested in understanding why obesity leads to an increased risk of cancers, including postmenopausal breast cancer...
Lewis Cantley
Lewis Cantley
Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D., has made significant advances in cancer research, stemming from his discovery of the signaling pathway phosphoinositide...
Rohit Chandwani
Rohit Chandwani
Assistant Professor
Rohit Chandwani, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Liver Transplantation, Hepatobiliary, and Pancreatic Surgery in the...
Christopher Cunniff
Christopher Cunniff
Professor of Pediatrics
As a clinical geneticist, Christopher Cunniff, M.D., has a longstanding interest in the care of children and young adults with chromosome...
Howard Fine
Howard Fine
Associate Director of the Meyer Cancer Center
Internationally renowned neuro-oncologist Howard A. Fine, M.D., is the founding Director of the Brain Tumor Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill...
Richard Furman
Richard Furman
Associate Professor of Medicine
Richard Furman, M.D., is Director of the CLL Research Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and a member of the Lymphoma Service in the Division of...
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology in Radiation Oncology
Lorenzo Galluzzi, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Cell Biology in Radiation Oncology with the Department of Radiation Oncology of Weill Cornell...
Paraskevi Giannakakou
Paraskevi Giannakakou
Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine
The laboratory of Paraskevi Giannakakou, Ph.D., focuses on the study of the microtubule cytoskeleton of cells and the anti-tumor drugs that target...
Jeffrey Greenfield
Jeffrey Greenfield
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery in Pediatrics
Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield, co-director of the Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) Children’s Brain Tumor Project, is a board-certified neurosurgeon and...
Daniela Guevara
Daniela Guevara
Fellow in Medicine
Daniela Guevara, M.D. is a Fellow in Medicine at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Guevara attended...
Monica Guzman
Monica Guzman
Associate Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine
Monica Guzman, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine, appointed in the Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology in the...
Iman Hajirasouliha
Iman Hajirasouliha
Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine
Iman Hajirasouliha, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine and an Assistant Professor of...
Marcin Imielinski
Marcin Imielinski
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Marcin Imielinski M.D., Ph.D, holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics and Assistant Professor of Pathology and...
Giorgio Inghirami
Giorgio Inghirami
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Giorgio Inghirami, M.D., is a practicing hematopathologist and a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and an Attending Pathologist...
Francesca Khani
Francesca Khani
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Francesca Khani, M.D., is a board-certified Anatomic and Clinical Pathologist with subspecialty training in Genitourinary Pathology.  She...
Ekta Khurana
Ekta Khurana
Assistant Professor
Ekta Khurana, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her lab research falls under the broad...
Michael Kluk
Michael Kluk
Director of Molecular and Genomic Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine
Michael Kluk, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of Molecular and Genomic Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine.  His focus is the integration of clinical...
Jan Krumsiek
Jan Krumsiek
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Jan Krumsiek, Ph.D., specializes in bioinformatics methods for omics research, with a particular focus on metabolomics data. To this end, he has...
Dolores Lamb
Dolores Lamb
Vice Chair, Department of Urology (Research)
Dolores J. (Dorrie) Lamb, Ph.D., is an investigator in the fields of urology, male infertility, steroid hormone action, prostate cancer and...
John P. Leonard
John P. Leonard
Associate Dean of Clinical Research
John P. Leonard, M.D., is the Richard T. Silver Distinguished Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology and Senior Associate Dean for...
Steven Lipkin
Steven Lipkin
Professor of Medicine
Steven M. Lipkin, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine, Director of the Weill-Cornell Program in Mendelian Genetics, Director of the Adult and...
Peter Martin
Peter Martin
Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Lymphoma Program
Peter Martin, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Lymphoma Program at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Martin completed his...
Timothy McGraw
Timothy McGraw
Professor of Biochemistry
Timothy E. McGraw, Ph.D., and his lab team study endocytic membrane trafficking.  Eukaryotic cells internalize extracellular ligands such as...
Jason G. Mezey
Jason G. Mezey
Professor of Computational Biomedicine
Dr. Jason Mezey is a Principal Investigator in the Cornell University Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, and a new...
Vivek Mittal
Vivek Mittal
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Vivek Mittal, Ph.D., is an associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery and of cell and developmental biology, studying the role of the tumor...
Ana M. Molina
Ana M. Molina
Clinical Scholar in Hematology-Oncology
Ana M. Molina, M.D., joined WCM Genitourinary (GU) Oncology as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant...
David Nanus
David Nanus
Mark W. Pasmantier Professor of Hematology and Oncology in Medicine
Dr David M. Nanus is the Mark W. Pasmantier Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology in Medicine and Director of the New York Presbyterian...
Lisa Newman
Lisa Newman
Chief of Breast Surgery
Lisa Newman, M.D., an internationally renowned breast surgeon and researcher, was appointed chief of the Section of Breast Surgery at...
Allyson Ocean
Allyson Ocean
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Allyson Ocean, M.D., is a medical oncologist and attending physician in gastrointestinal oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell...
Jyotishman Pathak
Jyotishman Pathak
Professor of Medical Informatics
Jyotishman Pathak, Ph.D., is the Frances and John L. Loeb Professor of Medical Informatics and Chief of Division of Health Informatics, Department...
David Pisapia
David Pisapia
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
David Pisapia, M.D., is a neuropathologist committed to treating every surgical specimen received with the utmost care and attention.  Patients...
Geoffrey Pitt
Geoffrey Pitt
The Ida and Theo Rossi Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Geoffrey Pitt, M.D., Ph.D., is a cardiologist and physician-scientist whose research focuses on diseases caused by abnormal function of ion...
Shahin Rafii
Shahin Rafii
Arthur B. Belfer Professor of Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College
Shahin Rafii, M.D., a board-certified hematologist-oncologist, is engaged in basic and translational research as well as patient care. He is the...
Hanna Rennert
Hanna Rennert
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Hanna Rennert, Ph.D., F.A.C.M.G. is Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory at...
David Rickman
David Rickman
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
David Rickman, Ph.D., is a molecular biologist and an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Rickman’s interest in...
Brian Robinson
Brian Robinson
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Brian Robinson, M.D., is a board-certified anatomic pathologist with subspecialty interest in genitourinary (GU) pathology. After finishing...
M. Elizabeth Ross
M. Elizabeth Ross
Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
M. Elizabeth Ross, M.D., Ph.D., is Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Development. The research in her laboratory centers on discovery of...
Ashish Saxena
Ashish Saxena
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Ashish Saxena, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant Attending Physician at the...
Manish Shah
Manish Shah
Associate Professor in Gastrointestinal Oncology
Manish Shah, M.D., is an international thought leader in drug development and the treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies. He is a...
Ravi Sharaf
Ravi Sharaf
Associate Professor of Medicine
Ravi Sharaf, M.D., M.S., is a gastroenterologist and health services researcher with a clinical focus on the care of patients with hereditary...
Alexandros Sigaras
Alexandros Sigaras
Assistant Professor of Research in Physiology and Biophysics
Alex, is an Assistant Professor of Research in Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He develops software solutions for the...
Karsten Suhre
Karsten Suhre
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Karsten Suhre, Ph.D., is a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) and the director of its...
Scott Tagawa
Scott Tagawa
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Scott T. Tagawa, MD, MS, FACP is a Professor of Medicine and Urology at Weill Cornell Medicine, and an Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian...
Wayne Tam
Wayne Tam
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Wayne Tam, M.D., Ph.D., received his undergraduate education at The Johns Hopkins University with honors and subsequently graduated from the...
Harold E. Varmus
Harold E. Varmus
Professor of Medicine
Dr. Harold E. Varmus is the Lewis Thomas University Professor & Senior Advisor to the Dean & Provost, and a Professor of Medicine, Weill...
Jenny Xiang
Jenny Xiang
Director, Genomics Resources Core Facility
Jenny Xiang, M.D., is Director of the Genomics Resources Core Facility (GRCF) and Professor of Research in the Department of Microbiology and...
Haiyuan Yu
Haiyuan Yu
Associate Professor of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University
Haiyuan Yu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology (BSCB), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences...
Jonathan Zippin
Jonathan Zippin
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
Jonathan Hale Zippin, M.D., Ph.D., FAAD, is Vice Chair of Research, Director Contact, Occupational, and Photodermatitis Service, Associate...
Melissa B. Davis
Melissa B. Davis
Director of Health Equity
Melissa B. Davis, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Surgery, Scientific Director of the International...
Omar Abdul-Rahman
Omar Abdul-Rahman
Director of Clinical Genetics
Dr. Abdul-Rahman is the Director of Clinical Genetics at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. “I look forward...
EIPM Team
Sarah Ackermann
Sarah Ackermann
Research Specialist
Sarah Ackermann is a Research Specialist at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine who just completed her Master’s in Biology thesis work...
Majd Al Assaad
Majd Al Assaad
Senior Research Fellow
Majd Al Assaad, M.D. is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and a Member of the Englander Institute...
Joonghoon Auh
Joonghoon Auh
Research Technician I
Joonghoon is a Research Technician at the EIPM. He works in a collaborative nature alongside the Organoid Team and other scientists to find...
Olivia Baldanza
Olivia Baldanza
Lab Administrative Assistant
Olivia Baldanza is the Laboratory Administrative Assistant at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. In their college career, Ms...
Nicholas Bartelo
Nicholas Bartelo
Graduate Student
Nicholas is a Ph.D. candidate at Weill Cornell Medicine in the Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology Program. I work in the Krumsiek lab...
Bhavneet Bhinder
Bhavneet Bhinder
Research Associate
  Bhavneet is a computational biologist interested in understanding the varied aspects of cancer biology that influence tumor...
Thomas Caiazza
Thomas Caiazza
Organoid technician
Thomas Caiazza is a research technician in the EIPM organoid lab. He’s part of a team of technicians that process tissue into organoids and...
Jared Capuano
Jared Capuano
Research Technician I
Jared Capuano currently works on the organoid platform at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine as a research technician. The organoid...
Pooja Chandra
Pooja Chandra
Bioinformatics Analyst
Pooja Chandra is a Bioinformatics Analyst at the Englander Institute of Precision Medicine. Her work involves data analysis for Whole Exome...
Cynthia Cheung
Cynthia Cheung
Translational Research Technologist II
Cynthia Cheung M.S. has a degree in Chemistry. She is part of the organoid team at Englander Institute of Precision Medicine that works with...
Katerine Claudio
Katerine Claudio
Clinical Research Program Specialist-Blood Biobank
Katerine Claudio supports the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine as a Clinical Research Program Specialist. She provides direct support to...
Peter Cleary
Peter Cleary
Communications Manager
Peter Cleary is the EIPM Communications Manager and is responsible for promoting the Institute, it’s professional staff and their research to...
Fatma Dansoko
Fatma Dansoko
Administrative Specialist
Fatma Dansoko is the administrative specialist for EIPM Director Olivier Elemento, Ph.D. Her duties include providing a wide range of secretarial...
Fana Dealla
Fana Dealla
Clinical Research Specialist
Bio coming soon!
Ashley Stephen Doane
Ashley Stephen Doane
Ph.D. Candidate
Ashley Stephen Doane, Ph.D. Candidate, Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Ashley is a...
Princesca Dorsaint
Princesca Dorsaint
Bioinformatics Analyst
Princesca is a Bioinformatics Analyst for the Englander Institute of Precision Medicine. Her projects are focused around RNA sequencing Data. She...
Jamal Elkhader
Jamal Elkhader
Ph.D. Candidate
Jamal Elkhader is Ph.D. Candidate under the mentorship of Dr. Olivier Elemento. He is a member of the Tri-I Program in Computational Biology &...
Ahmed Elsaeed
Ahmed Elsaeed
Fellow Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - EIPM Research and Development
Ahmed Elsaeed obtained his MD degree from Mansoura University- Egypt (Class 2020). He had 1-year home experience in molecular pathology before...
Kathryn Gorski
Kathryn Gorski
Bioinformatics Analyst
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Noah Greco
Noah Greco
Program Manager
Noah Greco, MBA, is the Clinical Research Manager for the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. He manages the regulatory compliance...
Roberto De Gregorio
Roberto De Gregorio
Senior Research Scientist
Bio coming soon.
Helen Hansel
Helen Hansel
Clinical Research Assistant
Helen is a Clinical Research Assistant in the EIPM’s Cancer Clinical Trials Office.
Casey Hebding
Casey Hebding
Laboratory Operations Specialist
Casey Hebding is a Laboratory Operations Specialist at the EIPM.  Casey focuses on supporting lab members in all aspects of their projects, as...
Sean Houghton
Sean Houghton
Senior Bioinformatics Analyst
Sean is a Senior Bioinformatics Analyst for the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. His research background includes investigating and...
Troy Kane
Troy Kane
Research Technician II
Troy is a Research Technician supporting the Specimen Processing platform at the EIPM. His focus is coordinating sample intake and processing from...
Abigail King
Abigail King
Research Technician II
Abigail is a Research Technician at EIPM. She works collaboratively with the EIPM team to use samples for genetic sequencing in pursuance of...
Helen Kuo
Helen Kuo
Ph.D. Candidate
Hui-Hsuan (Helen) Kuo is a graduate student in the WCGS Pharmacology program and working in the Organoid Platform at Englander Institute for...
Zichan Li
Zichan Li
Bioinformatics Analyst
Zichan Li is a Bioinformatics Analyst at the EIPM.
Jyothi Manohar
Jyothi Manohar
Clinical Research Manager
Jyothi Manohar, M.P.H. holds a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in hospital and molecular epidemiology. She supports the...
Justin Mclee
Justin Mclee
Translational Research Technologist
Justin Mclee is a Translational Research Technologist supporting the Specimen Processing platform at the EIPM. His primary focus is coordination...
John Mills
John Mills
Bio coming soon….
Jenna Moyer
Jenna Moyer
Platform Manager (Ex vivo models)
Jenna Moyer is the Platform Manager (Ex vivo models) at the EIPM at Weill Cornell Medicine. She manages the 3D organoid model development and...
Marie Normile
Marie Normile
Program Coordinator
  Marie Normile supports the Englander Institute as a Program Coordinator, engaging clinicians, research scientists, staff and students...
Shilpa Parmar
Shilpa Parmar
LIMS Specialist
Shilpa is the clinical Laboratory Information Management System Specialist (LIMS) at Weill Cornell Medicine. She performs system administration...
Enrique Podaza
Enrique Podaza
Postdoctoral Associate in Physiology and Biophysics
Enrique Podaza has a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. He is a Biologist with a solid background in tumor immunology...
Hiranmayi Ravichandran
Hiranmayi Ravichandran
Research Associate in Physiology and Biophysics
Bio coming soon….
André Figueiredo Rendeiro
André Figueiredo Rendeiro
Postdoctoral Associate in Computational Biomedicine
André is a Computational Biologist with a background in Developmental and Molecular Biology. He obtained a PhD at the Research Center for...
Florencia Madorsky Rowdo
Florencia Madorsky Rowdo
Postdoctoral Associate
Florencia Madorsky Rowdo, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. She is a cellular and molecular...
Alissa Semaan
Alissa Semaan
Research Specialist-FISH
Alissa Semaan is working as a Research Specialist-FISH at the Englander Institute of Precision Medicine. Her responsibilities include carrying out...
Michael Sigouros
Michael Sigouros
EIPM Lab Manager
Michael Sigouros, B.S. Tufts University, is the EIPM Laboratory Manager. He leads cross-functional research platforms to achieve key program...
Manuele Simi
Manuele Simi
Senior Software Engineer
Manuele Simi is a Senior Software Engineer at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. He graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from...
Sandhya Sriram
Sandhya Sriram
Bio coming soon…
Jeff Tang
Jeff Tang
Full Stack Software Engineer
Jeff Tang is a Full Stack Software Engineer at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. He holds a MS degree in Computer Science from John...
Marvel Tranquille
Marvel Tranquille
Research Technician II
Marvel Tranquille, M.S., holds a master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences with a concentration in Physiology and Biophysics. He currently works on...
Peter Waltman
Peter Waltman
Research Associate
Dr. Waltman is a Research Associate in Bioinformatics at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, working in the labs of Director Olivier...
Xiaofei Wang
Xiaofei Wang
Senior Bioinformatics Analyst
Xiaofei is a Senior Bioinformatics Analyst for the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. Her research focus is on understanding the...
David Wilkes
David Wilkes
Research Associate
David Wilkes, PhD, is a Research Associate in our lab.  His research focus is on investigating DNA damage response gene mutations in prostate...
Nicole Young
Nicole Young
Biorepository Expansion Technician
Nicole Young is the Biorepository Expansion Technician on the EIPM’s Organoid team. She grows and expands organoid cell lines that are...
Pantelis Zisimopoulos
Pantelis Zisimopoulos
Full Stack Software Engineer
Pantelis Zisimopoulos is a Full Stack Software Engineer at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. He is working on developing innovative...
Jeff Catalano
Jeff Catalano
Associate Director of IPM Administration
Jeff Catalano is the Associate Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine for IPM Administration. Accomplished healthcare...
EIPM Collaborators
Shaham Beg
Shaham Beg
Research Fellow
Shaham Beg, MD, brings his passion for oncopathology and molecular pathology to our clinical lab. His current responsibilities include frozen...
Himisha Beltran
Himisha Beltran
Director of Clinical and Translational Research
Himisha Beltran, MD, a medical oncologist and physician scientist, is Director of Clinical Activities at The Caryl and Israel Englander Institute...
Joanna Cyrta
Joanna Cyrta
Joanna Cyrta, MD, focuses on the role of chromatin remodeling complexes in oncogenesis and progression of solid tumors. Her fellowship is...
Kevin Delfino
Kevin Delfino
Research Technician II
Kevin Delfino supports the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Weill Cornell as a research technician for the Specimen Processing...
Francesca Demichelis
Francesca Demichelis
Francesca Demichelis, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Institute...
Kaitlyn Gayvert
Kaitlyn Gayvert
Computational Biologist Ph.D.
Kaitlyn Gayvert Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Medicine is also Graduate of the Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program...
Linda Huang
Linda Huang
Bioinformatics Analyst, Weill Cornell Medicine
Linda Huang had been working primarily on a sign-out portal for clinical genomics testing, known as NGS (Next-Generation Sequencing) Reporter...
Neel S. Madhukar
Neel S. Madhukar
Computational Biologist Ph.D.
Neel S. Madhukar received his Ph.D. working in the lab of Dr. Olivier Elemento using Big Data analytics and machine learning to help answer...
Loredana Puca
Loredana Puca
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Loredana Puca, Ph.D, is a postdoctoral research fellow in our lab.  Her research focus  is on identifying new biomarkers and therapies to prevent...
Alessandro Romanel
Alessandro Romanel
Assistant Professor
Dr. Alessandro Romanel obtained an MSc (March 2006) and a Ph.D. (March 2010) in Computer Science from the University of Trento. Dr. Romanel...
Mark Rubin
Mark Rubin
Mark A. Rubin , M.D. was the Founding Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, a recognized thought leader in the area of...
Jonathan Shoag
Jonathan Shoag
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urology at Weill Cornell Medicine
Jonathan (Yoni) Shoag, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Urology at University Hospitals Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University School of...
EIPM Interns
Natalia Perez
Natalia Perez
Summer Intern '22
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Yingshi Liang
Yingshi Liang
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Haiyue Xi
Haiyue Xi
Spring Intern '22
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Haohua Liu
Haohua Liu
Spring Intern '22
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Michael Kelleher
Michael Kelleher
Spring Intern '22
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EIPM Intern Alumni
Grace Le
Grace Le
Spring Intern '22
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Jacob Burns
Jacob Burns
Summer Intern '21
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William Zeng
William Zeng
Spring Intern '20
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Tanja Miketic
Tanja Miketic
Spring Intern '20
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Nga Yu Lo
Nga Yu Lo
Spring Intern '20
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Zach Yuzon
Zach Yuzon
Fall Intern '19
Zach Yuzon is currently a senior at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Math. While being...
Ariana Campbell
Ariana Campbell
Fall Intern '19
I am currently a Queens College senior under CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College. As a Computer Science and Neuroscience-Psychology double major...
Karina Ionkina
Karina Ionkina
Fall Intern '19
I’m a Macaulay Honors Student pursuing a joint B.A. degree in Computer Science and Chinese at Hunter College. My internship at EIPM is playing an...
Adrian Boskovic
Adrian Boskovic
Summer Intern '19
Adrian lives in Sammamish, WA as student at the Issaquah High School, and plays the piano and ice hockey. At the Englander Institute for Precision...
Chayma Boussayoud
Chayma Boussayoud
Summer Intern '19
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Jacob Boyar
Jacob Boyar
Summer Intern '19
Jacob is a high school student at the King School in Stamford, Connecticut. At Weill Cornell, he is assisting his mentor Akanksha Verma in the...
Cole Christini
Cole Christini
Summer Intern '18 '19
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Jackson Davis
Jackson Davis
Summer Intern '19
Jackson is currently a high school student at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. At Weill Cornell, Jackson will be utilizing Unity to build...
Emma Guyonnet
Emma Guyonnet
Summer '19
Emma is a rising sophomore at the University of Toronto majoring in Nutrition and Physiology. She plans to pursue an M.D./Ph.D. degree at the end...
Ilias Kladakis
Ilias Kladakis
Summer Intern '19
llias is currently a high school student enrolled in the Cambridge Program of Juanita High School in Kirkland, WA. In his spare time, he enjoys...
Antoine Assaf
Antoine Assaf
Summer Intern '14, '15
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Anthony Astarita
Anthony Astarita
XR Software Engineer
Anthony is pursuing a joint B.S. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science with minors in Political Science and Business at the Macaulay Honors...
Elia Azzolini
Elia Azzolini
Summer Intern '18
Azzolini Elia is a high school student at the Leonardo Da Vinci High School in Italy studying scientific subjects. At EIPM, his research interests...
Neeru Bhagirath
Neeru Bhagirath
XR Software Engineer
Neeru Bhagirath is an undergraduate student at the Macaulay Honors College at the City College of New York studying biology and computer science...
Arvind Dev
Arvind Dev
XR Software Engineer
Arvind is an undergraduate student at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College studying bioinformatics. His research focuses on the...
Qixuan (Michael) Li
Qixuan (Michael) Li
Summer Intern '19
Qixuan (Michael) Li is a master’s student studying Information Science at Cornell University. He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at...
Sania Luna
Sania Luna
Summer '19
Home for Sania is Los Angeles, California, where she is a rising Senior studying Human Biology at Pitzer College. After graduating, she plans to...
Gauri Nagavkar
Gauri Nagavkar
Summer '19
Gauri is from Mumbai, India and is a graduate student majoring in Computer Engineering at New York University. She is working with Tomer Yaron and...
Deus Nsenga
Deus Nsenga
Summer '19
Deus Alleluia Nsenga is a rising sophomore at Princeton University, and is from Kigali, Rwanda. His internship focuses on working with the High...
Anna Jacobson
Anna Jacobson
Summer Intern '18
Anna is currently a senior at Tufts University. She will be getting her Ph.D. from the Quantitative and Computational Biology program at...
Tymon Krzywinski
Tymon Krzywinski
Summer Intern '18
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Nastassja Kuznetsova
Nastassja Kuznetsova
Summer Intern '18
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Caroline Levenson
Caroline Levenson
Summer Intern '18
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Joseph Liu
Joseph Liu
Summer Intern '18
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Justin Lue
Justin Lue
Summer Intern '18
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Gurion Marks
Gurion Marks
Summer Intern '18
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Maria Mastropaolo
Maria Mastropaolo
Research Technician I
During my 2018 EIPM Summer Internship I helped optimize the environment for organoids, patient-derived 3D models of cancer that help researchers...
Sophia Roshal
Sophia Roshal
Summer Intern '16, '17, '18, '19
Sophia is a rising sophomore at Cornell University majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. Her interests include applying Computer Science...
Neil Ruthen
Neil Ruthen
Summer Intern '18, '19
Neil Ruthen is a rising senior at Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH) majoring in biochemistry and minoring in mathematics. He plans to pursue a...
Eti Sinha
Eti Sinha
Summer Intern '19
Eti is a first year Ph.D. student in the Biomedical Engineering program at Cornell University. She completed her bachelor’s in...
Tian Shen
Tian Shen
Summer Intern '18
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Junho John Song
Junho John Song
Summer '19
Junho John Song is majoring in Biology and specializing in Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. After gaining research experience at the...
Eugene Toth
Eugene Toth
Summer intern '19
Working at EIPM was a transformative experience.  Editing the monthly director’s memo, boosting media presence, and analyzing how to put EIPM’s...
Leon Xie
Leon Xie
Summer '19
Leon is a junior at Mountain Lakes High School in Mountain Lakes, NJ. He is interested in both biology and computer science, and how to...
Yunhan Yang
Yunhan Yang
Summer Intern '19
Yunhan graduated from the University of Southern California with a major in Computer Science. She is going into her second-year masters program at...
Benjamin Yellin
Benjamin Yellin
Summer Intern '19
Ben graduated from Haverford college with a major in Mathematics and a minor in Chemistry. He is going into the second year of a master’s program...