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

  • Sammantha Avaylon

    Bioinformatics Analyst

    M.S., School

  • Theo Botella

    Bioinformatics analyst

    M.S Computer Science, ESILV, Paris, France

  • Wei-Yu Chi

    PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program

    MD National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  • Mariela Cortés-López

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    PhD, Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology - Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

  • Andrew D'Avino

    MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program

    B.S Molecular and Cellular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, MD

  • Husain Danish

    MSKCC Neuro-oncology fellow; Postdoctoral research fellow

    MD Harvard Medical School, MA

  • William Driscoll

    Bioinformatics Associate

    B.S. Computer Science, Stanford University, CA

  • Elliot Eton

    MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program

    B.A Chemical and Physical Biology, Harvard University, MA

  • Foteini (Fenia) Fotopoulou

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    PhD Biology, DKFZ International PhD Program & Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany,

  • Saravanan Ganesan

    Postdoctoral fellow

    PhD, Biomedical Sciences (CSIR fellow, Raman-Charpak fellow), Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

  • Alejandro Garces

    PhD Student, Cornell Computational Biology Program

    M.S Biotechnology, Johns Hopkins University, MD

  • Evrim Goskel

    Visiting PhD Student (Koç University)

    B.S, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Jani Huuhtanen

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    MD University of Helsinki; PhD University of Helsinki

  • Alyssa Indart

    Research Scientist

    PhD Immunology and Synthetic Biology, University of California San Francisco, CA

  • Yiyun Lin

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    PhD. Biomedical Science, GSBS of MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

  • Qing Luo

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    PhD. Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Ramon Massoni

    Postdoctoral fellow

    PhD. Biology, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

  • Levan Mekerishvili

    PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program

    B.A Molecular Biology, Colgate University, NY

  • Xiaoli Mi

    Medical Oncology Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 

    MD Harvard Medical School, MA

  • Nicholas Midler

    Bioinformatics Analyst

    M.S. Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University, CA

  • Jane Park

    Lab manager

    B.S Environmental Systems, University of California, San Diego

  • Joe Pelt

    MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program

    M.S. Neuroscience, University of Oxford, UK

  • Catherine Potenski

    Scientific coordinator

    PhD, Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, NY

  • Tamara Pietro

    Postdoctoral fellow

    PhD Methodology and Applications in Life Sciences, University of Vigo, Spain

  • Jake Qiu

    PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program

    B.S. Biological Engineering, Purdue University, IN

  • Ivan Raimondi

    Research Innovation Director

    PhD, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

  • Srinivas (Sri) Rajagopalan

    PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program

    B.A Bio-Mathematics and Statistics (minor), Rutgers University, NJ

  • Ramya Raviram

    Postdoctoral fellow

    PhD, Computational Biology, New York University, NY

  • Sonnika Reddy

    Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow MSKCC/NYP-Weill Cornell

    MD New York Medical College, NY

  • Josh Schiffman

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    PhD Molecular & Computational Biology, University of Southern California, CA

  • Manu Singh

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    PhD Immunology, Australian National University, Australia

  • Abigail Thress

    Lab Research Technician

    B.S Biology, Northeastern University, MA

  • Sang-Ho Yoon

    Postdoctoral fellow

    PhD. Bioinformatics, Hanyang University, South Korea

  • Dennis Yuan

    Postdoctoral fellow

    PhD. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, NY

  • John Zinno

    Genomics Data Scientist / AI

    M.S Bioinformatics, New York University, NY; M.S Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, NY

See all Lab Alumni

Alumni- Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellows

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

Barun Pradhan, PhD (2021-2024); Current: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Queensland, Australia

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; Current: CEO, Prism AI

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Our projects span technology development, bench biology, computational genomics, machine learning and mathematical modeling. Get in touch to learn more!