Principal Investigator
Ioannis Aifantis
Professor and Chair
Herman M. Biggs Professor of Pathology
NYU Langone Medical Center
Junior Faculty
Dimitrios Papaioannou
Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, NYULH
(M.D., University of Athens, Greece, 2007)
Dimitris is studying long non-coding RNAs as regulators of higher-order chromatin structure in acute myeloid leukemia
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Jozef Durko
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D. Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK, 2023)
Jozef is studying the role of mitochondria dynamics in myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia.
Pier Edoardo Rovatti
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Pier is studying mechanisms of leukemia immune evasion.
Guido Barzaghi, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Joint PhD, EMBL and Heidelberg University, Germany)
Guido is studying 3D chromatin architecture, machine learning, pediatric leukemia.
Nizar Tangour
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(M.D., Faculty of medicine of Tunis, 2017)
Nizar investigates mechanisms of resistance and antigenic escape to immunotherapy in peditric leukemia.
Audrey Lasry
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2018)
Audrey is developing single cell approaches to study leukemia microenvironment
Audrey.LasrySandler@nyulangone.org
Rebecca Austin
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D. The University of Queensland, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia, 2018.)
rebecca.austin@nyulangone.org
Giovanni Gambi
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D. University of Strasbourg, France, 2021)
Giovanni is investigating 3D chromatin rewiring in leukemia
Juan Carlos Balandran
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D. Center for Research and Advanced Studies, CINVESTAV, Mexico City, 2018)
JC is exploring the role of inflammation in the leukemia etiopathogenesis by using single cell approaches
Varvara Paraskevopoulou
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 2020)
Varvara is investigating the role of the microenvironment in response to stress and in leukaemia pathogenesis.
Mingjun Liu
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, USA, 2022)
Mingjun will be studying epigenetic mechanisms of inflammation during myeloid transformation
Maria Sirenko
(Ph.D. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA, 2023)
Maria is studying inflammation in hematologic malignancies.
Graduate Students
Steven Schlau
Steven.Schlau@nyulangone.org
Ali Rosen
PhD Student, NYU
(B.S. from University of Washington, 2019)
Ali is studying 3D chromatin architecture, epigenetics.
(Co-Mentored by Aristotelis Tsirigos)
Zoe Ciantra
Graduate Student
(B.A. Oberlin College 2018)
Zoe is studying immune evasion mechanisms in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
(Co-Mentored by Jun Wang)
Research Technicians
Kun Wang
Research Technician
University of China
Kun is organizing our animal colonies.
Wafa Al-santli
Research Technician
(M.Sc, 2019, Adelphi University, NY)
Wafa is working on projects related to single cell analysis of the bone marrow microenvironment
Olha Ivashkiv
Research Technician
(M.Sc, 2015, CUNY City College of New York, NY)
Olha is working on T-ALL PDX projects.
Bioinformaticians
Emily Kawaler
Bioinformatician
(PhD, NYU, 2021)
Emily is using single cell transcriptomics and other computational approaches to study myeloid malignancies.
Hua Zhou
Bioinformatician
Hua is working on the analysis of deep sequencing experiments (bulk RNASeq, ATAC-Seq, ChipSeq, sc-RNAseq).
Javier Rodriguez-Hernaez
Bioinformatician
(MSc Biomedical Informatics, NYU) Javier develops computational tools to study 3D chromosomal architecture and epigenetics in leukemia.
Ziyan Lin
Bioinformatician
Ziyan is focusing on analysis of single cell sequencing data and the interaction between leukemia and its microenvironment.
Lab Manager
Jingjing Wang
Lab Manager/Research Scientist
(Ph.D. Peking University, China, 2011)
Jingjing focuses on identification of regulators of Myc protein stability.
Administration
