The mentoring faculty studying Computational Biomedicine PhD Training Program at NYU Grossman School of Medicine represent a wide range of backgrounds and research interests. Search a list of all mentoring faculty.

Genomics

Iannis Aifantis, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Chair, Department of Pathology
Research interests: hematopoietic stem cell differentiation, leukemia, ubiquitin ligases, epigenetic regulation, noncoding RNA

Timothy Cardozo, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: molecular design, informatics, drug discovery, HIV vaccine

Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Neuroscience and Physiology
Research interests: genomics, cardiovascular biology, computational biology, developmental genetics, epidemiology, systems biology, molecular, cellular, and translational neuroscience

Teresa Davoli, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: cancer, genome integrity, genomics

Gilad D. Evrony MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience and Physiology
Research interests: genomics, single-cell sequencing, neurodevelopment, human genetics, brain tumors, precision medicine

David Fenyö, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: bioinformatics, proteomics, mass spectrometry

Morgan Grams, MD, PhD
Member of the Faculty, Departments of Medicine and Population Health
Research interests: renal insufficiency, kidney failure, glomerular filtration rate, acute kidney injury, albuminuria

David Gresham, PhD
Professor of Biology and Faculty Director of Bioinformatics, NYU Center of Genomics and Systems Biology

Eva Hernando-Monge, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Assistant Dean for Research Integration
Research interests: mechanisms of progression and metastasis, epigenetic alterations including microRNA and chromatin modifiers, using melanoma as tumor model

Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology

Dan Littman, MD, PhD
The Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of Pathology; Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: T-cell development, mechanisms of inflammation, AIDS pathogenesis

Mengling Liu, PhD
Professor, Department of Population Health
Research interests: semiparametric modeling and inference for survival data, joint analysis with longitudinal data, statistical genetics, statistical modeling in epidemiology studies and other types of risk-set sampling studies

Matthew Maurano, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Research interests: genomics of gene expression and genetics of human disease

Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Research interests: complex traits and diseases, population and statistical genetics, functional genomics, phenotypic prediction

Benjamin Neel, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Research interests: signal transduction in normal and cancer cells, functional genomics, breast and ovarian cancer

John T. Poirier, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Preclinical Therapeutics Program
Research interests: cancer, genome integrity, genomics, microbiology

Narges Razavian, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Population Health and Radiology
Research interests: machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, biomarker discovery

Danny Reinberg, PhD
The Terry and Mel Karmazin Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: epigenetics, transcription, chromatin, noncoding RNA, ants, stem cells

Eli Rothenberg, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: single-molecule studies of DNA damage signaling and repair pathways

Jane Skok, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Research interests: nuclear organization of immunoglobulin genes

Machine Learning and Artificial Inteligence

Clinical Informatics

Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine
Research interests: biomedical informatics

Richard Bonneau, PhD
Professor, NYU Departments of Biology and Computer Science
Research interests: network inference from functional genomics data, predicting and modeling protein structure

Sumit Chopra, PhD
Interim Member of the Faculty, Department of Radiology
Research interests: machine learning, imaging, cancer

Stephen B. Johnson, PhD
Member of the Faculty, Department of Population Health
Faculty Director of Datacore
Research interests: clinical research informatics, health informatics, natural language processing, sociotechnical research

Narges Razavian, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Population Health and Radiology
Research interests: machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, biomarker discovery

Computational Biology

Nadav Brandes, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: advancing frontier AI, in particular large language models of protein and DNA sequences, to establish links between genetic variation and disease and optimize genomic sequences for therapeutic outcomes

David Fenyö, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: bioinformatics, proteomics, mass spectrometry

Tomas Kirchhoff, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health and Environmental Medicine
Research interests: identification of inherited genetic basis of cancer risk, outcome, and therapy response

Mengling Liu, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health and Environmental Medicine
Research interests: semiparametric modeling and inference for survival data, joint analysis with longitudinal data, statistical genetics, statistical modeling in epidemiology studies and other types of risk-set sampling studies

Bhubaneswar Mishra, PhD
Professor, NYU Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Cell Biology
Research interests: genomics, cancer biology, game theory, internet

Kelly Ruggles, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Research interests: multi-omics integration, computational immunology, cancer, cardiovascular disease

Rahul Satija, DPhilb
Assistant Professor, NYU Department of Biology
Research interests: single-cell genomics, transcriptional regulation, computational biology

Jonas Schluter, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
Research interests: gut microbiome, massive clinical data sets and the hospitalome, microbial ecology and warfare, evolutionary theory, quorum sensing, and machine learning and Bayesian time series analysis

Erik Sulman, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
Research interests: radiation oncology, brain tumor, genomic medicine

Aristotelis Tsirigos, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Research interests: computational genomics

Itai Yanai, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: single-cell gene expression analyses of embryonic development, cancer evolution, and bacterial infection

Hua Zhong, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Population Health and Environmental Medicine
Research interests: network-based biosignature development

Systems Biology

Jef Boeke, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: mechanisms of transposition in higher cells

Liam Holt, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: synthetic biology, evolution, cancer, cell division, stem cell programming, systems biology

Timothee Lionnet, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Research interests: epigenetics, transcription, microscopy, super resolution, cancer, stem cell reprogramming, nuclear organization, systems biology

Marcus Noyes, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: study of functional potential of common systems protein domains, producing protein domains with novel functions for therapeutic applications

Beatrix Ueberheide, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Research interests: proteomics

Christine Vogel, PhD
Professor, NYU Department of Biology
Research interests: eukaryotic expression regulation under stress (proteomics, transcriptomics, translatomics