The Vierbuchen laboratory directs the differentiation of mouse and human pluripotent stem cells to characterize fundamental mechanisms of neuronal cell fate specification and function.

The Hite laboratory studies the mechanisms of ion and metabolite transport and the maintenance of genomic integrity.

Cancer biologist Tuomas Tammela investigates cellular heterogeneity in lung and pancreatic cancers.

Yael David’s lab develops and applies methods in chemical biology toward studying epigenetic regulation and its correlation with disease states.

Physician-scientist Piro Lito studies oncoproteins that drive cancer cell growth.

Chemical biologist Daniel Bachovchin designs selective inhibitors to study enzymes and pathways in cancer and immune system signaling.

Molecular geneticist Elli Elli Papaemmanouil performs systematic interrogations of well-annotated clinical trial cohorts in leukemia and cancer to explore how the compound genetic and clonal architecture in patients' leukemias and tumors dictate clinical phenotype, disease progression, and clinical outcomes.

Cancer Immunologist Andrea Schietinger investigates immune responses to cancer, molecular mechanisms underlying tumor-induced T cell dysfunction, and new approaches for cancer immunotherapy.

Cancer biologist and pediatric oncologist Alex Kentsis leads research in the functional proteomics and molecular pharmacology of refractory childhood cancers.

Cancer biologist Nikolaus Schultz uses computational tools to study the diversity of genomic alterations underlying different cancer types.

Physician-scientist Omar Abdel-Wahab studies the functional genomics of hematopoietic malignancies.