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
Director, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Olivier Elemento, PhD is the Director of the Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. He is also Associate Director of the...
Alicia Alonso
Director of Innovation
Alicia Alonso, PhD, MSc, is Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology Research in Medicine, and Scientific Director, Epigenetics Core, at the Joan...
Robert Kim
Administrative Director
Robert Kim is the Administrative Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. He is responsible for the overall operations of...
Theresa MacDonald
Research Administrator
Theresa is the Director of Strategy at the Englander Institute. She has BA in Classics and English Literature from McGill University and a BS in...
Laura Martin
Ex Vivo Models Director
Laura Martin, Ph.D., will lead efforts in the utilization of patient derived models of cancer, studying the functional impact of genetic and...
Juan Miguel Mosquera
Director of Pathology
Juan Miguel Mosquera, MD, MSc is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, an Assistant Attending...
Andrea Sboner
Director of Informatics and Computational Biology
Andrea Sboner, Ph.D., is the Director of Informatics and Computational Biology and an Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics in...
Wei Song
Director, Clinical Genomic Laboratory
Wei Song, MD, PhD, is the Director of the Clinical Genomic Laboratory at the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, an Assistant Professor of...
EIPM Members
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
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Niroshana Anandasabapathy, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Attending Dermatologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Associate Professor of...
Eleni Andreopoulou
Breast Center Research Director
Dr. Andreopoulou completed her training in major academic institutions in both Europe and the U.S. In addition to her active clinical practice...
Karla Ballman
Chief of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Dr. Ballman specializes in designing clinical trials, analyzing complex data, and developing molecular signatures that can help predict whether or...
Christopher Barbieri
Assistant Professor
Christopher Barbieri, MD is a urologic surgeon whose long-term goal is the definition of distinct molecular classes of prostate cancer, functional...
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 Brown
Assistant Professor
Dr. Brown’s lab is interested in understanding why obesity leads to an increased risk of cancers, including postmenopausal breast cancer...
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
Assistant Professor
Dr. Rohit Chandwani is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Liver Transplantation, Hepatobiliary, and Pancreatic Surgery in the Department of...
Hye-Yeon Choi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Hye-Yeon Choi, M.D., M.S., Ph.D., is a stroke neurologist from Seoul, South Korea and a visiting Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics...
Christopher Cunniff
Professor of Pediatrics
As a clinical geneticist, Dr. Cunniff has a longstanding interest in the care of children and young adults with chromosome abnormalities, genetic...
Andrew Dannenberg
Professor of Medicine
Andrew Dannenberg, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine in Cardiothoracic Surgery. His laboratory research is focused on the connection between...
Melissa B. Davis
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Research in Surgery (Interim)
Melissa B. Davis, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Surgery, Scientific Director of the International...
Bishoy Faltas
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Bishoy Morris Faltas, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and an Assistant Attending in the Genitourinary Oncology...
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
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/Myeloma Service in the...
Paraskevi Giannakakou
Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine
Dr. Giannakakou’s laboratory’s overall research theme encompasses the study of the microtubule cytoskeleton of cells and the...
Jeffrey Greenfield
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery in Pediatrics
Jeffrey Greenfield, MD, Ph.D. is a board-certified neurosurgeon who specializes in pediatric neurosurgery. In addition, he sees certain adult...
Monica Guzman
Associate Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine
Dr. Guzman is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine, appointed in the Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology in the...
Iman Hajirasouliha
Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine
Iman Hajirasouliha, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine and an Assistant Professor of...
Duane Hassane
Assistant Professor of Computational Biomedicine in Medicine
Dr. Hassane is an Assistant Professor of Computational Biomedicine in Medicine. He is also Director of Leukemia Genomics in the Caryl and Israel...
Yariv Houvras
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Yariv Houvras, M.D., Ph.D. is a physician-scientist with a clinical focus on treating patients with advanced thyroid cancers. He completed...
Marcin Imielinski
Assistant Professor
Marcin Imielinski M.D., Ph.D, holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics and Assistant Professor of Pathology and...
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
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
Assistant Professor
Ekta Khurana is an Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her lab research falls under the broad categories of...
Michael Kluk
Director of Molecular and Genomic Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine
Michael Kluk, MD, PhD is the Director of Molecular and Genomic Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine. His focus is the integration of clinical...
Jan Krumsiek
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Joining the Englander Institute in 2018, Dr. Krumsiek specializes in bioinformatics methods for omics research, with a particular focus on...
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
Associate Dean of Clinical Research
John Leonard, M.D., specializes in medical oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine. Over several years, chemotherapy and radiation therapy have been...
Steven Lipkin
Professor of Medicine
Steven M. Lipkin, MD, Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine, Director of the Weill-Cornell Program in Mendelian Genetics, Director of the Adult...
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
Professor of Biochemistry
Timothy E. McGraw, Ph.D., and his lab team study endocytic membrane trafficking. Eukaryotic cells internalize extracellular ligands such as...
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 Molina
Clinical Scholar in Hematology-Oncology
Dr. Ana M. Molina joined WCM Genitourinary (GU) Oncology as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant...
David Nanus
Mark W. Pasmantier Professor of Hematology and Oncology in Medicine
David Michael Nanus, M.D. is interested in improving the care of patients with cancer through research aimed at developing new and more effective...
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
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Dr. Allyson Ocean is a medical oncologist and attending physician in gastrointestinal oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell...
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
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 and...
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
Arthur B. Belfer Professor of Genetic Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College
Dr. Shahin Rafii, a board-certified hematologist-oncologist, is engaged in basic and translational research as well as patient care. He is the...
Rema Rao
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College
Rema Rao, M.D., F.C.A.P., F.A.S.C.P. completed her medical training at JJM Medical College in India. Dr. Rao went on to do a residency in...
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...
Kristy Richards
Associate Professor
Kristy Richards, M.D., Ph.D., is a medical oncologist who specializes in treating lymphoma patients, and her laboratory focuses on finding new and...
David Rickman
Assistant Professor
David Rickman, PhD, is a molecular biologist and an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Rickman’s interest in...
Brian Robinson
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Dr. Brian Robinson is a board-certified anatomic pathologist with subspecialty interest in genitourinary (GU) pathology. After finishing residency...
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
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Ashish Saxena is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant Attending Physician at the...
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 distinguished...
Ravi Sharaf
Associate Professor of Medicine
Dr. Ravi Sharaf MD MS is a gastroenterologist and health services researcher with a clinical focus on the care of patients with hereditary cancer...
Ankur Singh
Assistant Professor
Ankur Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Dr. Singh has strong...
Karsten Suhre
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Dr. Karsten Suhre is a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) and the director of its...
Scott Tagawa
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Scott T. Tagawa, M.D., M.S., is the Richard A. Stratton Associate Professor in Hematology and Oncology, an Associate Professor of Clinical...
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...
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
Associate Professor of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University
Haiyuan You, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology (BSCB), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences...
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...
EIPM Team
Inji Baek
Laboratory Technologist
Inji Baek is working as a Lab technologist, she holds a New York State certificated Clinical laboratory technologist license and earned her Master...
Rohan Bareja
Programmer Analyst
While cancer genomics studies the status of the DNA of tumor to identify the alterations that enable those tumor cells to survive...
Shaham Beg
Research Fellow
Shaham Beg, MD, brings his passion for oncopathology and molecular pathology to our clinical lab. His current responsibilities include frozen...
Bhavneet Bhinder
Research Associate
Bhavneet is a computational biologist interested in understanding the varied aspects of cancer biology that influence tumor...
Jeff Catalano
Operations Manager, Clinical Genomics Lab
Jeff Catalano is the Operations Manager for our Clinical Genomics Laboratory. His passion is for patient care and building products and teams...
Sung-Suk Chae
Senior Research Associate
Sung-Suk Chae, PhD, is a Senior Research Associate in our lab, whose focus is hormone therapy induced neuroendocrine prostate cancer development...
Victor Chan
Research Program Specialist
Victor Chan is a Research Program Specialist PM Case and Data Management, B.S., Fordham University and facilitates the enrollment processes...
Gloria Cheang
Lab Lead Technologist
Gloria Cheang is a Lab Lead Technologist in the Englander for Precision Medicine’s Clinical Genomics Lab. As Lab Lead, she oversees the day...
Cynthia Cheung
Research Technician II
Cynthia Cheung is a Research Technician II, and her focus is working with patient-derived tumor models in our organoid lab. She is responsible for...
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...
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...
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 &...
Ken Eng
Principle Bioinformatics Engineer
Genomics already has an important role in guiding therapeutic decision making. As we integrate genomic information of varying resolution...
Evan Fernandez
Bioinformatics Analyst
Evan Fernandez is a Bioinformatics Analyst for the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. He helps process and integrate data, such as...
Coryandar Gilvary
PhD Candidate
Coryandar Gilvary is Ph.D. Candidate under the mentorship of Dr. Olivier Elemento. She is a member of the Institute for Computational Biomedicine...
Noah Greco
Program Manager
Noah Greco, MBA, is the Program Manager for the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine Clinic team. He manages the regulatory administration...
Casey Hebding
Research Technician I
Casey Hebding is a Research Technician in our lab. Casey focuses on supporting lab members in all aspects of their projects, as well as general...
Judy Hess
Research Technician I
Judy Hess, B.S. Tufts University, is a Research Technician I, at Beltran lab, which is focused on understanding mechanisms of treatment resistance...
Pegah Khosravi
Postdoctoral Associate
Pegah Khosravi, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Computational Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine. She is a scientist in the...
Yuewei Li
Lab Technologist
Yuewei Li, PhD, is a Lab Technologist in our Clinical Genomics Lab. Dr. Li focuses on the development of new assays to detect rare mutants with...
Jyothi Manohar
Research Program Specialist
Jyothi Manohar M.P.H., University of Michigan, is a Research Program Specialist for Precision Medicine Case and Data Management with Clinical...
Kevin Newhall
Research Technician I
Kevin Newhall is a Research Technician in our lab. His project focus is examining the biological mechanisms underlying chemotherapy resistance in...
Marie Normile
Project Specialist
Marie Normile supports the Englander Institute as a Senior Project Specialist, engaging clinicians, research scientists, staff and students...
Eva Park
Lab Technologist
Eva is a New York certified Clinical Laboratory Technologist in the Englander for Precision Medicine Genomics Lab. Graduating from Seoul National...
Shilpa Parmar
LIMS Specialist
Shilpa is the clinical Laboratory Information Management System Specialist (LIMS) at Weill Cornell Medicine. She performs system administration...
Gunkeshi Rajoria
Lab Quality Supervisor
Gunkeshi “Raja” Rajoria is the Lab Quality Supervisor in our Clinical Genomics Lab. Raja focuses on quality management in the lab...
Sinan Ramazanoglu
Bioinformatics Analyst
Sinan is currently focusing on six projects: comparison of organoids and soft tissue samples, investigation of genetic variation in genes...
Jonathan Shoag
Senior Clinical Associate
Jonathan (Yoni) Shoag, MD, is a Senior Clinical Associate for the Institute for Precision Medicine, and a Resident Physician at NewYork...
Alexandros Sigaras
Senior Research Associate in Computational Biomedicine
Alexandros is a Senior Research Associate in Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. He develops software solutions for the Englander...
Michael Sigouros
Beltran Lab Manager
Michael Sigouros, B.S. Tufts University, is focusing his research on characterizing AR-negative NEPC as a mechanism of resistance to enzalutamide...
Maurice Spiewack
Scientific Software Engineer
Maurice Spiewack is a Scientific Software Engineer for the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine. As a Scientific Software Engineer, he...
Fanying Tang
Graduate Student
Fanying Tang is a Graduate Student in our lab. Fanying’s research focus in the study of tumor heterogeneity with single cell RNA seq. She...
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...
Hung V. Tran
Lab Technologist
Hung V. Tran is a Lab Technologist for the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine’s clinical genomics lab. He specializes in performing...
Anastasia Tsomides
Research Technician I
Anastasia Tsomides joined us right after graduation from Connecticut College. Her concentration is in cellular and molecular biology and is...
Akanksha Verma
Programmer/Bioinformatics Analyst
Graduate student at Weill Cornell Medical College in Computational Biology and Medicine. She has been working since 2014 as a...
Aram Vosoughi
Research Fellow
Aram Vosoughi, MD, is a Genitourinary Pathology fellow in our lab. His research focus is on DNA repair pathways alterations in urothelial...
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...
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...
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...
EIPM Collaborators
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, MD, focuses on the role of chromatin remodeling complexes in oncogenesis and progression of solid tumors. Her fellowship is...
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, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Institute...
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
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
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
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
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 A. Rubin , M.D. was the Founding Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, a recognized thought leader in the area of...
EIPM Interns
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...
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
XR Software Engineer
Arvind is an undergraduate student at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College studying bioinformatics. His research focuses on the...
EIPM Intern Alumni
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...
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...
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
Summer Intern '16, '17, '18
Sophia's research focus is on developing 3D immersive and collaborative mixed reality applications using Microsoft HoloLens. In 2017 she helped to...
Neil Ruthen
Summer Intern '18
Neil Ruthen is a biochemistry major and mathematics minor at Oberlin College with a background in computational biology and molecular diagnostics...