Elemento Lab

Lab Team

Primary Investigator

Olivier Elemento
Olivier Elemento , PhD
  • Director, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
  • Associate Director, Institute for Computational Biomedicine
  • Associate Program Director, Clinical & Translational Science Center
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Lab Members

Juan Sebastián Andrade Martínez
Juan Sebastián Andrade Martínez
  • Graduate Student, Tri-I CBM
Research Focus:
Prediction of Responses to Immune Checkpoint Blockade through Machine Learning
  • M. Sc., B.S., Universidad de los Andes
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Fayzan Chaudhry
Fayzan Chaudhry
  • Graduate Student, Tri-I CBM
Research Focus:

Protein-Ligand Interactions

  • Washington University in Saint Louis
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Allison Chen
  • PhD. Student, Biomedical Engineering (Volunteer)
Research Focus:

PK/PD  parameters of small molecule drugs

LinekdIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-r-chen-28b58390/

Award(s): NSF Graduate Research Fellow

  • B.S., University of California San Diego
Zhuoyang Chen
Zhuoyang Chen
  • Graduate Student, MSCB
Research Focus:
Correlation Between Chromosome Instability and Gene Expression in BRCA
  • M. Sc, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
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Stephan Cordogan
  • Computational Biology Graduate Student
Research Focus:

Predictive Genomics

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-cordogan-179053230/

  • B. A. University of Wisconsin- Madison, Genetics & Genomics
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Elkhader
Jamal Elkhader
  • Graduate Student, Tri-I CBM
Research Focus:

Creating a machine learning framework for drug repurposing

  • B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Kyle Finos
  • MD Student
Research Focus:

Computer Vision In Highly Multiplexed Imaging

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-finos-8bb9511b7/

  • B.S. University of Michigan
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Eugenia Giannopoulou
Eugenia Giannopoulou , PhD
  • Assistant Professor, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Research Focus:

Assistant Professor, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

Assistant Research Scientist, Hospital for Special Surgery, David Z. Rosensweig Genomics Research Center

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Rachel Honigsberg
  • Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering
Research Focus:

Determining T cell response to PD-1 blockade in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-honigsberg/

  • M.S. Cornell University, B.S. Biomedical Engineering Boston University, B.A. Mathematics Boston University
Yang Hu
Yang Hu , PhD
  • Bioinformatics Analyst
Research Focus:
Epithelial plasticity can generate multi-lineage phenotypes in human and murine bladder cancers; 
Lineage reversion drives WNT independence in intestinal cancer

  • PhD, New York University
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Junbum Kim
  • Postdoctoral Associate
Research Focus:

Spatial Biology, Machine Learning

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junbum-kim-25a27190/?locale=en_US

  • Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medicine
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Lior
Lior Kofman
  • Student, Computational Biology Summer Program (CBSP)
Research Focus:

Computation of Cancer Polysocial Risk Scores

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Scott Klum
Scott Kulm
  • Graduate Student, PBSB
Research Focus:

Polygenic Risk Score Applications

  • B.E., The Cooper Union
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Hui-Hsuan (Helen) Kuo
  • Graduate Student, Pharmacology
Research Focus:

Patient-derived tumor organoid modeling

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/huihsuanhelenkuo/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KWkELggAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

  • B.S., Purdue University
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Alisa Seungha Lee
Alisa Seungha Lee
  • Graduate Student, Computational Biology
Research Focus:
Study the regulation of gene expression through transcription factors and chromatin in mammalian systems

  • B.S., Cornell University
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Neel Madhukar
Neel Madhukar , PhD
  • CEO/Co-founder, OneThree Biotech
Research Focus:

CEO/Co-founder, OneThree Biotech

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Andrew Marderstein
Andrew Mardenstein
  • Graduate Student, Tri-I CBM
  • B.S., Cornell University
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Dylan McNally
Dylan McNally
  • Graduate Student, PBSB
Research Focus:

The role of transcription dysregulation in lymphomagenesis

  • B.A., Cornell University
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James Nicholson
James Nicholson , PhD
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Neurology
Research Focus:
Characterisation and targeting of Glioma gene regulatory networks
  • PhD, MSc, BSc, Queen Mary Univeristry of London
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Heng
Heng Pan
  • Senior Research Associate
Research Focus:

Robust Discovery of Candidate DNA Methylation Cancer Drivers

QSER1 Protects DNA Methylation Valleys from De Novo Methylation

  • PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • B.S., Peking University
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Jiwoon Park
Jiwoon Park
  • Rotation Student, PBSB
viraj rapolu
Viraj Rapolu
  • Graduate Student, Tri-I CBM
Research Focus:

Analysis of ATAC-seq TCGA data

  • B.S., B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Amanda Reid
  • Translational Research Technologist II
Research Focus:

Mass cytometry

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-reid/

  • B.S. University of Connecticut
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Andre Rendeiro
André Rendeiro , PhD
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Research Focus:

Computational tools for the analysis of Imaging Mass Cytometry data

  • Ph. D., Medical University of Vienna Degree
  • M. Sc., B.S., University of Aveiro, Portugal
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Yajas Shah
Yajas Shah
  • Graduate Student, PBSB
Research Focus:

Cancer Genomics

  • Johns Hopkins University, Sc.M., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • University of Mumbai, B.Sc., Life Sciences
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Eti Sinha
  • Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Research Focus:

Early detection of cancers and cancer progression

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/etisinha/

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  • B.S. Bioengineering, UC San Diego
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Colin Tang
Colin Tang
  • Graduate Student, Pharmacology
Research Focus:

Drug resistance in glioblastoma

  • B.S., University of Washington
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Matt Teater
Matt Teater , PhD
  • Postdoctoral Associate
Manik Uppal
Manik "Munna" Uppal , MD
Research Focus:

Genomic and transcriptomic determinants of immune infiltration in healthy tissues

  • MD, Weill Cornell Medical College
  • B.A. Columbia University
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Akanksha Verma
Akanksha Verma , PhD
  • Scientist, Computational Biology, Volastra Therapeutics
Research Focus:
Volastra Therapeutics 
  • PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • BA, Hunter College
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Jess White
Jess White
  • Graduate Student, Computational Biology
Research Focus:

Connectivity Map

  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania
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Chengqi Xu , Ph.D.
  • PhD of Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine
Research Focus:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chengqixu/?locale=en_US

  • M.E., Cornell University B.S., University of Edinburgh
Tomer Yaron
Tomer Yaron
  • Graduate Student, Tri-I CBM
Research Focus:

The Kinase Library; Phospho-antigen; MHC Library 

  • M.Sc., B.Sc., Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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Liron Yoffe
Liron Yoffe
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Institute for Computational Biomedicine
Research Focus:
Understanding the role of the microenvironment in hematological malignancies
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liron-yoffe-55b57b1a/
Publications: PubMed
  • PhD, M.Sc, Tel Aviv University
  • B.Sc., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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