Meet the Landau Lab
A collaborative, creative, and collegial research community
In our lab, there is broad range in expertise and research emphasis across themes of somatic evolution and human genomics, encompassing both experimental and computational labs. Our strength derives from the unique makeup of our group, with each individual bringing their passion and intellect to tackle the most fascinating and challenging questions in human somatic evolution, disease genomics, cancer evolution, single-cell biology, cell-free DNA technology and beyond.
Meet the P.I.
Dan Landau, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Core Member, New York Genome Center
Training and Experience:
MD, Tel Aviv University, 1995 - 2002
PhD, Paris Diderot University, 2010 - 2013
Internal Medicine residency, Yale New Haven Hospital, 2007 - 2009
Hematology and Medical Oncology fellowship, Yale Cancer Center, 2009 - 2014
Post Doctoral training, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute, 2011 - 2014
Instructor of Medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute, 2014 - 2015
Current Lab Members
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Sammantha Avaylon
Bioinformatics Analyst
M.S., School
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Theo Botella
Bioinformatics Analyst
M.S Computer Science, ESILV, Paris, France
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Wei-Yu Chi
PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program
MD National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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Mariela Cortés-López
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology - Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Andrew D'Avino
MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
B.S Molecular and Cellular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, MD
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Husain Danish
MSKCC Neuro-Oncology Fellow; Postdoctoral Research Fellow
MD Harvard Medical School, MA
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Elliot Eton
MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
B.A Chemical and Physical Biology, Harvard University, MA
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Foteini (Fenia) Fotopoulou
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Biology, DKFZ International PhD Program & Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany,
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Saravanan Ganesan
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Biomedical Sciences (CSIR fellow, Raman-Charpak fellow), Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
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Alejandro Garces
PhD Student, Cornell Computational Biology Program
M.S Biotechnology, Johns Hopkins University, MD
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Evrim Goskel
Visiting PhD Student (Koç University)
B.S, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Jani Huuhtanen
Postdoctoral Fellow
MD University of Helsinki; PhD University of Helsinki
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Alyssa Indart
Research Scientist
PhD Immunology and Synthetic Biology, University of California San Francisco, CA
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Yiyun Lin
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD. Biomedical Science, GSBS of MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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Qing Luo
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD. Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Ramon Massoni
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD. Biology, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
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Levan Mekerishvili
PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program
B.A Molecular Biology, Colgate University, NY
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Xiaoli Mi
Medical Oncology Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
MD Harvard Medical School, MA
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Jane Park
Lab manager
B.S Environmental Systems, University of California, San Diego
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Joe Pelt
MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
M.S. Neuroscience, University of Oxford, UK
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Catherine Potenski
Scientific Coordinator
PhD, Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, NY
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Tamara Prieto
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Methodology and Applications in Life Sciences, University of Vigo, Spain
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Jake Qiu
PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program
B.S. Biological Engineering, Purdue University, IN
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Ivan Raimondi
Research Innovation Director
PhD, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
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Srinivas (Sri) Rajagopalan
PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program
B.A Bio-Mathematics and Statistics (minor), Rutgers University, NJ
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Anders Rasmussen
PhD Student, Tri-Institutional PhD program in Computational Biology and Medicine.
B.S. Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Sonnika Reddy
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow MSKCC/NYP-Weill Cornell
MD New York Medical College, NY
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Josh Schiffman
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Molecular & Computational Biology, University of Southern California, CA
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Manu Singh
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Immunology, Australian National University, Australia
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Abigail Thress
Lab Research Technician
B.S Biology, Northeastern University, MA
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Sang-Ho Yoon
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD. Bioinformatics, Hanyang University, South Korea
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Dennis Yuan
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, NY
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John Zinno
Genomics Data Scientist / AI
M.S Bioinformatics, New York University, NY; M.S Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, NY
Alumni- Postdoctoral Fellows
Postdoctoral Fellows
Ramya Raviram, PhD (2021-2025), Current: Senior Scientist, NeptuneBio
Adam Widman, MD (2020-2024), K08 awardee, Melanoma Research Alliance Fellowship awardee; Current: Assistant Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Nir Ben-Chetrit, PhD (2017-2024); Current: Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine
Alexandre Pellan Cheng, PhD (2020-2024), American Cancer Society Fellowship awardee; Current: Associate Professor, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Quebec
Franco Izzo, PhD (2017-2023), American Society for Hematology Fellowship awardee; Current: Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Allegra Hawkins, PhD (2019-2021), F99/K00 awardee; Current: Data Scientist at Childhood Cancer Data Lab, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
Federico Gaiti, PhD (2016-2021), K99 awardee; Current: Assistant Professor, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Canada
Ronan Chaligné, PhD (2016-2020), LRF Innovation Award and Marie Curie EU fellowship awardee; Current: Head, Single Cell Research Initiative, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Anna Nam, MD (2017-2020), BWF and DP5 awardee; Current: Assistant Professor of Pathology, Weill Cornell Medicine
Andrew Lipsky, MD (2017-2020); Current: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University
Kyu-Tae Kim, PhD (2016-2019); Current: Assistant Professor, Ajou University School of Medicine, Korea
Asif Zviran, PhD (2016-2019), EMBO Fellowship awardee; Subsequent position: Co-founder, CEO of C2i Genomics (acquired by Veracyte); Current: CEO, Prism AI
Interested in becoming part of the team?
Join the Landau Lab!
Our projects span technology development, bench biology, computational genomics, machine learning and mathematical modeling. Get in touch to learn more!