DBMI Core Faculty

Learn about our core faculty and their major areas of research below.

For a complete list of faculty, staff, and students, visit the DBMI People Directory.

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Paul Avillach
Paul Avillach

Research Areas

Biomedical Discovery Infrastructure

Taxonomy of Disease

 Michael Baym
Michael Baym

Research Areas

Computational Omics

Evolutionary Genetics

Microbial Genomics

 Tianxi Cai
Tianxi Cai

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

Clinical Decision Making

Learning Health Systems

Taxonomy of Disease
Maha Farhat
Maha Farhat

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

Clinical Decision Making

Evolutionary Genetics

Microbial Genomics

 Nils Gehlenborg
Nils Gehlenborg

Research Areas

Biomedical Discovery Infrastructure

Clinical Decision Making

Computational Omics

 Peter Kharchenko
Peter Kharchenko

Research Area

Computational Omics
Isaac Kohane
Isaac Kohane

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

Biomedical Discovery Infrastructure

Clinical Decision Making

Taxonomy of Disease

 Heng Li
Heng Li

Research Areas

Biomedical Discovery Infrastructure

Computational Omics

 Alexa McCray
Alexa McCray

Research Areas

Biomedical Discovery Infrastructure

Clinical Decision Making
Peter Park
Peter Park

Research Areas

Biomedical Discovery Infrastructure

Computational Omics

 Chirag Patel
Chirag Patel

Research Areas

Clinical Decision Making

Genes and Environment

 Shamil Sunyaev
Shamil Sunyaev

Research Areas

Computational Omics

Evolutionary Genetics
Kun-Hsing Yu
Kun-Hsing Yu

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

Clinical Decision Making

Computational Omics

 Cheng-Zhong Zhang
Cheng-Zhong Zhang

Research Areas

Computational Omics

Evolutionary Genetics

 Marinka Zitnik
Marinka Zitnik

Research Areas

Artificial Intelligence

Biomedical Discovery Infrastructure

Computational Omics