Van Allen Lab Team

Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Dr. Eliezer (Eli) Van Allen is Chief of the Division of Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Chandra Nohria Family Chair for AI in Cancer Research at Dana-Farber, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also an Institute Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and a Member Researcher in The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. As both a medical oncologist and computational biologist, he develops algorithms to dissect high-dimensional data directly from cancer patients and uses these insights to address major open questions in the field. Dr. Van Allen’s research has led to significant advances in understanding the molecular origins of cancer, using artificial intelligence to discover novel resistance mechanisms to cancer therapies, and defining how genomics can guide clinical decision-making. Through these initiatives, he created the field of clinical computational oncology to advance and enable precision cancer medicine worldwide.

Originally from Los Angeles, CA, he studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford University, obtained his MD from UCLA, and completed a residency in internal medicine at UCSF before coming to Boston and completing a medical oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care program.

Jihye Park, PhD

Lead Scientist

Lauren Miller-Jones, BA

Lab Administrator

Erin Shannon, BS

Sr. Research Project Data Manager

Lab Members

Saud AlDubayan, MD

Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Saud is a board-certified clinical geneticist and computational biologist in the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Saud obtained his Medical Doctorate degree in 2009 and has done clinical training in adult medicine at the University of Toronto as well as clinical genetics and genomics at Harvard Medical School. Saud also did postdoctoral research training in computational biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Broad Institute, as well as translational genomics at Harvard Clinical and Translational Academy. In addition to clinically evaluating patients with inherited cancer-predisposition syndromes, Saud is also a dedicated scientist whose research interest has focused on exploring the utility of integrative DNA-repair centered analyses of paired germline and tumor genetic and transcriptomic data for informing clinical decision making. Saud’s current research work aims to explore novel inherited and somatic genomic predictors of cancer risk, cancer progression and chemoresistance in large cohorts of cancer patients.

Sabrina Camp, MS

Software Engineer II

Ryan Collins, PhD

Instructor, Harvard Medical School (jointly with Gusev and Haigis Labs)

Haitham Elmarakeby, PhD (Computer Science)

Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Noah Fields, MS

Computational Biologist

Amanda Garza, PhD

Senior Scientist

Alex Haas, MSc

Heidelberg University MD Program (Visiting Scholar)

Sharon Jiang, BS, MEng

HST MD Program

Claire Johnson, BS

HMS BIG PhD program

Shreya Johri, BTech

HMS BBS PhD program (co-mentored with Rajpurkar Lab)

Alexander Jordan, MD

Postdoctoral Fellow (Co-mentored with Drs. Nowak and Aguirre)

Julie Karam, BS

Computational Biologist

Katelyn Li, BA

HST MD Student

Gwen Miller, BA

HMS BIG PhD program

Tess O'Meara, MD, MHS

Medical Oncology Fellow, Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care

Erica Pimenta, MD/PhD

Medical Oncology Fellow, Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care

Brendan Reardon, BS (Physics)

Computational Biologist

Brendan originally conducted research in astrophysics while studying physics at Brandeis University before migrating to computational biology and clinical computational oncology. His research is now motivated by the goal of improving clinical interpretation in cancer genomics, especially through integrative approaches.

Ahmed Roman, PhD

Post-doctoral Fellow

Eddy Saad, MD

Post-doctoral Fellow (Co-mentored with Dr. Toni Choueiri)

Maha Shady, BS, MEng

HMS BIG PhD program (Co-mentored with Dr. Shamil Sunyaev)

Parker Simpson, MS

Computational Biologist

Emma Su

Undergraduate Research Associate

Breanna Titchen, BS

Harvard Medical School BBS PhD program

Matías Vergara, MS

Computational Biologist

Sherin Xirenayi, BS

Harvard Medical School SSQB PhD program

David Yang, MD

Instructor, Harvard Radiation Oncology Program

Lab Alumni

David Liu, MD, MPH, MS

Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School

Daniel Keliher

Mathematics PhD program, Tufts University

Travis Zack, MD, PhD

UCSF Internal Medicine/Medical Oncology

Allison Chang, MD, PhD

BWH Internal Medicine, DF/HCC Medical Oncology Fellowship

Paris Ghazi

Undergraduate, Cornell University

Alicia Smart, MD (HST)

Harvard Radiation Oncology program

Nate Moore, MD

University of Cincinnati Internal Medicine

Garam Celine Han, PhD - BMS ImmunoOncology

Director, Data Science & Strategic Data Biopharma Business Development, Caris Life Sciences

Noora J. Al-Muftah, MS

University of Oxford PhD Program

Stephanie Wankowicz - PhD Program (UCSF)

Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics (Vanderbilt)

Diana Miao, MD (HST)

OB/Gyn residency (Johns Hopkins)

Claire Margolis, BS (Computer Science), MS (Biomedical Informatics)

Verana Health | Verily

Eric Kofman, BS (Computer Science)

UCSD PhD Program

Alexander "Scanner" Cheung, BS

MBHL - NYU School of Medicine (MD)

Nisarg Patel, DMD

UCSF Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery / MD Program

Vidal Arroyo

BS - University of Oxford (Rhodes)

Amaro Taylor-Weiner, PhD

(Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics) - VP of Machine Learning (Path.AI)

Daniel Boiarsky

MD - Internal Medicine, Tufts

Shirley Mo (HST)

MD - Internal Medicine, UCSF

Nicholas Moore

MD - Radiation Oncology, Yale

Anran (Angel) Tang, BS, MS

Gerstner Sloan Kettering Cancer Biology PhD program

David Konieczkowski, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University (Radiation Oncology)

Natalie Vokes, MD

MPhil - Assistant Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Alice Bosma-Moody, BS

HST MD Program - Internal Medicine (Brigham & Women's Hospital)

Derek Liu, BS (HST MD program)

Internal Medicine (Stanford University)

Alice (Xiaoou) Wang, BA

MS (Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School)

Sophia Kamran, MD

Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology (MGH)

Tanya Keenan, MD

MPH - Principal Scientist, Early Oncology Clinical Research (Merck)

Meng Xiao He, PhD (Biophysics)

Senior Scientist, Genentech

Alexis Coolidge, MD

(HMS) - Internal Medicine, MGH

Ziad ElBakouny, MD - Internal Medicine

BWH | Medical Oncology Fellow, MSKCC

Jett Crowdis

BS - Medical Student (Harvard Medical School)

Jake Conway, PhD (Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics)

Scientist, Path.AI

Pauline Gabrieli, BA, MS (Biomedical Informatics)

Bain Capital Life Sciences, Medical Student (Harvard Medical School)

Gha Young Lee, BS

(HST MD student) - MIT PhD Chemistry Program

Filipe Carvalho, MD, PhD (Urologic Oncology Fellow)

Assistant Professor, Brigham & Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School (Urology)

Felix Dietlein, MD, PhD (Instructor, Harvard Medical School)

Assistant Professor, Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Keyan Salari MD, PhD - (Instructor, Urologic Oncology)

Assistant Professor, MGH & Harvard Medical School

Alok Tewari, MD/PhD

Independent Faculty, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Caroline Canning, BS, MS

(HMS Biomedical Informatics Masters student) - Medical Student (Northwestern University)

Iggy Im, BS (Undergraduate Research Student)

Computational Biologist, MIT

Karthik Nair, MEng (MIT)

Medical Student (NYU)

Bowen Jiang (Undergraduate Research Student)

Masters Program in Biomedical Computation, Stanford University

Surya Narayanan, BS (Computational Biologist)

CalTech Biology PhD program

Alina Shen, BA

HMS Immunology MMSc program

Kathryn Li, BS

HST MD student

Aditi Limaye (Undergraduate Research Student)

Harvard Medical School MD student

Alma Imamovic, MS

Computational Biologist

Chris Labaki, MD (Postdoctoral research fellow)

Internal Medicine, BIDMC

Jackson Nyman, PhD (Systems Biology)

Machine Learning Engineer, Path.AI

Hoyin Chu, BS

(Computational Biologist (jointly with Dr. AlDubayan Group)

Julia Schiantarelli, MD (HST MD program)

Pediatrics Residency Program, Boston Children's Hospital

Jingxin Fu, PhD (Postdoctoral research fellow)

Research Scientist, Breast Oncology Group, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Irbaz Riaz, MD, PhD, MS, MBI (Biomedical Informatics)

Assistant Professor, Alix School of Medicine at Mayo Clinic

Seunghun Han, PhD (Graduate Student, BBS)

Scientist, Oncology Bioinformatics, Moderna

David Borer, BS (Fulbright Scholar)

Camille Mathey-Andrews, MD

General Surgery Resident, TOPS Postdoctoral Fellow

Cora Ricker, BS

Computational Biologist (Pediatric Oncology)

Yuxi Liu, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow - Wang Lab (BWH/HMS/HSPH)

Samantha Hoffman, PhD (BBS)

HMS MD/PhD Student

Nicita Mehta, PhD (BIG)

HMS MD/PhD Student

Marc Glettig, MSc (Computational Biologist)

ETH Zurich, PhD Student

Andréanne Gagné, MD

PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow in Pathology with Drs. Lynette Sholl & Peter Sorger)

Yun Jee Kang, MD (Research Fellow)

General Surgery Resident, BWH

Laura Valderrábano, BA (Computational Biologist)

Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine

Kevin Meli, PhD (BBS)

RBC

Riaz Gillani, MD (Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Instructor (Boston Children's Hospital))

Independent Faculty, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Boston Children's Hospital

Marc Harary, BA (Computational Biologist [jointly with the Lotter Lab])

Columbia PhD Student

Kevin Bi, BS (Scientist II - single cell analysis)

Senior Computational Scientist, Broad Institute

Theodora Pappa, MD/PhD (Post-Doctoral Fellow & Instructor)

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School & BWH Endocrinology

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