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Principal Investigator
Alberto Ciccia
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Professor, Department of Genetics and Development ​
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Ph.D.: University College London, London Research Institute, UK
Postdoc: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
ac3685@cumc.columbia.edu
Associate Research Scientists
Postdoctoral Fellows
Alina Vaitsiankova
Ph.D.: University of Sussex, UK
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Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Fellow
av3141@cumc.columbia.edu
Tomas Lama-Diaz
Ph.D.: University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation Fellow
tl3339@cumc.columbia.edu
Ernesto Lopez de Alba
Ph.D.: Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
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EMBO Fellow
el3516@cumc.columbia.edu
Graduate Students
Minjee Kim
Ph.D. student, Columbia University, New York, NY
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Vagelos Institute's Biomedical Research Education Program
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mk4955@cumc.columbia.edu
Visiting Graduate Students
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Giuseppe Leuzzi
Ph.D.: University of Viterbo, Italy
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Current position: Group Leader, IFOM, Milan
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Pierre Billon
Ph.D.: Laval University, Canada
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Current position: Assistant professor, University of Calgary, Canada
Raquel Cuella-Martin
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Ph.D.: University of Oxford, UK
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Current position: Assistant professor, McGill University, Canada
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Silvia Alvarez-Nanez
Ph.D.: Spanish National Cancer Research Center, Spain
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Current position: Manager of translational genetics, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
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Tanay Thakar
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Ph.D.: Penn State University, PA
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Current position: Research scientist, Broad Institute
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Jen-Wei Huang
Ph.D.: University of Washington, WA
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Former Ph.D. Students
Samuel Hayward
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Current position: Scientist, Gordian Biotechnology
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Sarah Joseph
Current position: Life science consultant, LEK
Former Undergraduate Students
Margaret Chen
Current position: Undergraduate student, Columbia University, NY
Zahra Khan
Current position: M.D./Ph.D. student, Vanderbilt University, TN
Shivi Dua
Current position: D.O. student, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, PA
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Anuj Gupta
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Current position: M.D. student, Stony Brook University's School of Medicine, NY
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Catherine Zhang
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Current position: Ph.D. student, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Jose Pomarino Nima
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Current position: Ph.D. student, Columbia University, NY
Kelly Ryu​
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Current position: M.D./Ph.D. student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Max Tseng
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Current position: Master student, Columbia University, NY
Former Visiting Students
Antoine Gougé
Current position: M.D./Ph.D. student, Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris Cité
Ilaria Pietrini
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Current position: Ph.D. student, SEMM, IFOM, Milan, Italy
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