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.

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Lida Wang

2025- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Single-cell QTL architecture.

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Lili Wang

2025- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Methods for multi-modal perturbational screens.

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Josh Popp

2025- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD, co-advised with Alkes Price
Molecular architecture of disease risk and progression.

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Mustafa Saleh

2024- Research fellow in Medicine. MD, co-adviased with Toni Choueiri
Germline mechanisms of immunotherapy outcomes.

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Zeyun Lu

2024- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Integration of GWAS and perturbational screens.

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Krisna Van Dyke

2024- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Single-cell eQTL mechanisms.

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Yi Ding

2024- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Gene-environment interactions and reinforcement learning for clinical policies.

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Sarah Urbut

2022- Clinical fellow, MD PhD, co-advised with Pradeep Natarajan and Giovanni Parmigiani
Longitudinal disease modelling.

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Kodi Taraszka

2022- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD, Computer Science
Machine learning for digital histopathology.

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Dennis Grishin

2022- Postdoctoral fellow, PhD
Predictive models of non-coding variants.

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Doctoral Students

Nuno Carvalho

2025- Doctoral student, Harvard BMI
Quantitative genetics and heritability estimation.

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Patrick Connor

2025- Doctoral student, Harvard BIG
Machine learning for high-dimensional clinical data.

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Chaimaa Fadil

2023- Doctoral student, Harvard BBS, co-advised with Alkes Price
Context-specific geneti risk prediction.

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Shaye Carver

2021- Doctoral student, Harvard BBS
Methods for single-cell and imaging data.

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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

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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

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Ariel Wu

2023-2025 AstraZeneca Postdoctoral fellow, PhD, co-advised with Vishwa Nellore
2025 Researcher at AstraZeneca

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Danielle Kurant

2021-2025 Postdoctoral fellow. MD, Pathology
2025 Pathologist at Tempus, Inc

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Douglas Yao

2023-2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, PhD
2025 Independent researcher

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Stefan Groha

2018-2023 Postdoctoral fellow. DPhil, Physics
2023 AI/ML Engineer, Causal Machine Learning at GSK

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Sylvan Baca

2019-2022 Medical Oncology Fellow, MD, PhD, co-advised with Matt Freedman
2022 Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Cynthia Kalita

2019-2022 Postdoctoral fellow. PhD, Molecular Biology
2022 Senior Scientist at Dewpoint Therapeutics

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Jian Carrot-Zhang

2020-2022 Instructor, PhD, Genetics, co-advised with Matthew Meyerson
2022 Assistant Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Graduate Students

Ella Petter

2022-2025 Doctoral student, UCLA, co-advised with Noah Zaitlen
2025 Researcher at Meta

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Douglas Yao

2020-2023 Doctoral student, Harvard SSQB, co-advised with Brian Cleary
2023 Postdoctoral fellow in Gusev lab

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Dennis Grishin

2019-2022 Doctoral student, Harvard BBS
2022 Postdoctoral fellow in Gusev lab

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Intae Moon

2019-2024 Doctoral student, MIT EECS
2024 Postdoctoral fellow in Zitnik Lab at Harvard DBMI

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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