Alexander (Sasha) Gusev
Associate Professor of Medicine
Lead, Clinical Computational Oncology Group
Harvard Medical School & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Principal investigator
Postdoctoral Fellows
Nathan LaPierre
2025- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Predictive models of perturbational data.
Lida Wang
2025- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Single-cell QTL architecture.
Lili Wang
2025- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Methods for multi-modal perturbational screens.
Josh Popp
2025- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD, co-advised with Alkes Price
Molecular architecture of disease risk and progression.
Mustafa Saleh
2024- Research fellow in Medicine. MD, co-adviased with Toni Choueiri
Germline mechanisms of immunotherapy outcomes.
Zeyun Lu
2024- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Integration of GWAS and perturbational screens.
Krisna Van Dyke
2024- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Single-cell eQTL mechanisms.
Yi Ding
2024- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Gene-environment interactions and reinforcement learning for clinical policies.
Sarah Urbut
2022- Clinical fellow, MD PhD, co-advised with Pradeep Natarajan and Giovanni Parmigiani
Longitudinal disease modelling.
Kodi Taraszka
2022- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD, Computer Science
Machine learning for digital histopathology.
Dennis Grishin
2022- Postdoctoral fellow, PhD
Predictive models of non-coding variants.
Doctoral Students
Nuno Carvalho
2025- Doctoral student, Harvard BMI
Quantitative genetics and heritability estimation.
Patrick Connor
2025- Doctoral student, Harvard BIG
Machine learning for high-dimensional clinical data.
Chaimaa Fadil
2023- Doctoral student, Harvard BBS, co-advised with Alkes Price
Context-specific geneti risk prediction.
Shaye Carver
2021- Doctoral student, Harvard BBS
Methods for single-cell and imaging data.
Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Jaclyn LoPiccolo
2021-2025 Medical Oncology Fellow, MD PhD, co-advised with Pasi Jänne
2025 Member of the faculty, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Ryan Collins
2022-2025 Postdoctoral fellow, PhD, co-advised with Eli Van Allen and Kevin Haigis
2025 Member of the faculty, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Ariel Wu
2023-2025 AstraZeneca Postdoctoral fellow, PhD, co-advised with Vishwa Nellore
2025 Researcher at AstraZeneca
Danielle Kurant
2021-2025 Postdoctoral fellow. MD, Pathology
2025 Pathologist at Tempus, Inc
Douglas Yao
2023-2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, PhD
2025 Independent researcher
Stefan Groha
2018-2023 Postdoctoral fellow. DPhil, Physics
2023 AI/ML Engineer, Causal Machine Learning at GSK
Sylvan Baca
2019-2022 Medical Oncology Fellow, MD, PhD, co-advised with Matt Freedman
2022 Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Cynthia Kalita
2019-2022 Postdoctoral fellow. PhD, Molecular Biology
2022 Senior Scientist at Dewpoint Therapeutics
Jian Carrot-Zhang
2020-2022 Instructor, PhD, Genetics, co-advised with Matthew Meyerson
2022 Assistant Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Graduate Students
Ella Petter
2022-2025 Doctoral student, UCLA, co-advised with Noah Zaitlen
2025 Researcher at Meta
Douglas Yao
2020-2023 Doctoral student, Harvard SSQB, co-advised with Brian Cleary
2023 Postdoctoral fellow in Gusev lab
Dennis Grishin
2019-2022 Doctoral student, Harvard BBS
2022 Postdoctoral fellow in Gusev lab
Intae Moon
2019-2024 Doctoral student, MIT EECS
2024 Postdoctoral fellow in Zitnik Lab at Harvard DBMI
Undergraduate / Masters
Carlos Arevalo Rivas
2022-2022 Computational Biologist
2023 Junior Specialist at UCSC
Harveer Singh
2022-2023 Masters student, MIT MEng
Austin Wang
2018-2020 Research assistant, MIT MEng, CS & Molecular Biology
2020 Doctoral student at Stanford
Anamay Shetty
2018-2019 Undergraduate researcher, co-advised with Matt Freedman
2019 Medical Student at the University of Cambridge
Rotations
Nuno Carvalho
2024 Doctoral student, Harvard BIG
Amber Shen
2024 Doctoral student, Harvard BIG
Patrick Connor
2023 Doctoral student, Harvard BIG
Chaimaa Fadil
2023 Doctoral student, Harvard BBS
Lilia Olmstead
2023 Doctoral student, Harvard BBS
David Tang
2022 Doctoral student, Harvard BIG
Michael Poeschla
2021 Doctoral student. Harvard MD-PhD Program
Shaye Carver
2020 Doctoral student. Harvard BBS
Derek Shyr
2019 Doctoral student, Harvard Biostatistics
Yixuan He
2019 Doctoral student. Harvard BIG
Douglas Yao
2018 Doctoral student. Harvard BIG
Catherine Li
2018 Undergraduate researcher. Harvard Statistics