Research Team

Principal Investigator/Head of Laboratory

Avi Ma'ayan, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics
Experimental Therapeutics Institute (ETI)

Director of the Information Management Unit
Systems Biology Center New York (SBCNY)
E-mail: avi.maayan@mssm.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Neil Clark, PhD
E-mail: neil.clark@mssm.edu

PhD Students

Qiaonan Duan, BS
E-mail: qiaonan.duan@mssm.edu

Yan Kou, MSc
E-mail: yan.kou@mssm.edu

Software/Database Developers

Edward Chen, MS
E-mail: edward.chen@mssm.edu

Christopher Tan, BS
E-mail: christopher.tan@mssm.edu

Alumni

Huilei Xu, PhD
Graduate Student
Current Position: Bioinformatics Scientist, Qiagen

Ben MacArthur, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Southampton (UK)

Amin Mazloom, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Bioinformatics Scientist, Sequenom Inc.

Gabriela Vaz Meirelles, PhD
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Postdoc, National Laboratory Biosciences (LNBio), Brazil

Alexander Lachmann
Senior Systems Software Specialist
Current Position: PhD Student, Columbia University

Caroline Baroukh
Senior Systems Software Specialist
Current Position: PhD Student, INRIA (France)

Simon Gordonov
Programmer Analyst
Current Position: PhD Student, MIT

Ruth Dannenfelser
Associate Researcher
Current Position: MS Student, Princeton University

Marylens Hernandez
MSSM PhD Rotation Student

Amelia White
PhD Rotation Student

Alexander Barash
MSSM Medical Student
Current Position: Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow, Mount Sinai

Ryan Logan Webb
MSSM Medical Student
Current Position: Residency, Cooperstown Regional Hospital

Aditi Dandapani
Research Trainee
Current Position: PhD Student, Columbia University

Victor Nnah
MSSM SURP Fellow
Lehman College

John Zhuang
MSSM SURP Fellow
Current Position: MD/PhD Student, Cornell

Yan Fei Luo
Systems Biology Center New York Fellow
Brooklyn College

Pedro Pagan
Systems Biology Center New York Fellow
Hunter College

Anastasia Sagalovitch
Systems Biology Center New York Fellow
Current Position: MS Student, City College of New York

Mariola Szenk
Systems Biology Center New York Fellow
Current Position: PhD Student, Stony Brook University

Fred Clark
Undergraduate Student
Current Position: MS Student, Columbia University

Alexandra Peyser
Undergraduate Student
Columbia University

Nabil Ahmed
High-school Student (Intel Project)
Herricks High School

Jayanath Krishnan
High-school Student (Intel Project)
Current Position: Student, Physician Scientist Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Albany Medical College


Contact Us

Avi Ma'ayan, PhD
Tel: 212-659-1739
Fax: 212-831-0114
Send e-mail

Icahn Medical Institute
1425 Madison Avenue
Room 12-78 (Office), 12-76 (Lab)
One Gustave L. Levy Place
Box 1215
New York, NY 10029

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