Program Leadership & Management

  • Bing Ren, PhD

    MacMillan Center Scientific Director

    Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer, New York Genome Center; Professor of Genetics and Development, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Associate Director in the Vagelos Institute for Basic Biomedical Science in VP&S, Columbia University

  • Dan Landau, MD, PhD

    MacMillan Center Scientific Co-Lead

    Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center; Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine

  • Neville Sanjana, PhD

    MacMillan Center Scientific Co-Lead

    Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center; Professor of Biology, Neuroscience, and Physiology at New York University

  • Samuel Aparicio, BM, BCh, PhD, FRCPath, FRSC

    MacMillan Center Scientific Advisory Board Chair

    Senior Scientific Director of Cancer Genomics, New York Genome Center; Nan & Lorraine Robertson Chair in Breast Cancer Research and Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia; Head of the Department of Breast and Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Research

  • Tom Maniatis, PhD

    MacMillan Center Senior Advisor

    Evnin Family Scientific Director Emeritus, New York Genome Center; Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University; Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute

  • Samantha Fennessey

    MacMillan Center Program Manager

    Associate Director, Scientific Initiatives, New York Genome Center

Investigative Team

  • Samuel Aparicio, BM, BCh, PhD, FRCPath, FRSC

    MacMillan Center Scientific Advisory Board Chair

    Senior Scientific Director of Cancer Genomics, New York Genome Center; Nan & Lorraine Robertson Chair in Breast Cancer Research and Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia; Head of the Department of Breast and Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Research

    Aparicio Lab Website

  • Elham Azizi, PhD

    Full Member, Program for Mathematical Genomics, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Herbert and Florence Irving, Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research, Columbia University

    Azizi Lab Website

  • Nyasha Chambwe, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cancer Center Member, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

    Chambwe Lab Website

  • Melissa Davis, PhD

    Director, Institute of Translational Genomic Medicine, Associate Professor (interim) of Microbiology Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine; Associate Adjunct Professor of Development and Cell Biology, Scientific Director, International Center for the Study of Breast Cancer Subtypes (ICSBCS), Interim Director of Health Equity, Englander Institute of Precision Medicine

    Davis Lab Website

  • Karuna Ganesh, MD, PhD

    Medical Oncologist, Assistant Attending Physician, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Ganesh Lab Website

  • Marcin Imieliński, MD, PhD

    Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center; Director of Cancer Genetics, Perlmutter Cancer Center, Interim Member of the Faculty, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

    Imieliński Lab Website

  • David Knowles, PhD

    Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center; Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Appointee, Systems Biology, Affiliate Member, Data Science Institute, Columbia University

    Knowles Lab Website

  • Dan Landau, MD, PhD

    MacMillan Center Scientific Co-Lead

    Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center; Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine

    Landau Lab Website

  • Rachel Martini, PhD

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Lab, Institute of Translational Genomic Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine

  • Bing Ren, PhD

    MacMillan Center Scientific Director

    Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer, New York Genome Center; Professor of Genetics and Development, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Associate Director in the Vagelos Institute for Basic Biomedical Science in VP&S, Columbia University

    Ren Lab Website

  • Neville Sanjana, PhD

    MacMillan Center Scientific Co-Lead

    Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center; Professor of Biology, Neuroscience, and Physiology at New York University

    Sanjana Lab Website

  • Rahul Satija, PhD

    Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center; Professor of Biology, New York University

    Satija Lab Website

  • Sohrab Shah, PhD

    Chief of Computational Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Shah Lab Website

  • Ruslan Soldatov, PhD

    Assistant Attending, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Soldatov Lab Website

  • David Tuveson, MD, PhD

    Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Research, Cancer Center Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

    Tuveson Lab Website

  • Chris Vakoc, MD, PhD

    Professor, Alan and Edith Seligson Professor of Cancer Research, Cancer Center Deputy Director of Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

    Vakoc Lab Website

  • Sanja Vickovic, PhD

    Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center; Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University; Wallenberg Academy Fellow and SciLifeLab Fellow, Science for Life Laboratory and Uppsala University

    Vickovic Lab Website

  • Chenxu Zhu, PhD

    Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center ; Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

    Zhu Lab Website

Current Collaborators

  • Clark Chen, MD, PhD

    Director, Brain Tumor Program, and Co-Director, Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery Program, Brown University Health

  • Shridar Ganesan, MD

    Professor, Department of Medicine, Interim Deputy Director, Perlmutter Cancer Center, Director, Center for Molecular Oncology, Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

  • Tamas Gonda, MD

    Professor, Department of Medicine, Co-Director, (Gastroenterology), Pancreatic Cancer Program, Director, Pancreatic Disease Program, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

  • Alexandra Miller, MD

    Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Co-Director, Brain and Spine Tumor Center (BSTC), Chief, Neuro-Oncology Program, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

  • Matija Snuderl, MD

    Professor, Department of Pathology, Director, Molecular Pathology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Past Investigators

  • Onyinye Balogun, MD

  • David Blei, PhD

    Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Columbia University

  • Gamze Gürsoy, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

  • Amber Habowski, PhD

    Postsoctoral Fellow, Tuveson Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

  • Karol Nowicki-Osuch, PhD

    Junior Group Leader and Head of the Tumorigenesis and Molecular Cancer Prevention Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

  • Simon Tavaré, PhD

    Senior Associate Faculty Member, New York Genome Center

    Director, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics & Professor, Statistics and Biological Sciences, Columbia University

  • Raditya Utama, PhD

    Manager, Bioinformatics Core, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory