Alexander (Sasha) Gusev
Associate Professor of Medicine
Lead, Clinical Computational Oncology Group
Harvard Medical School & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Principal investigator
Krisna Van Dyke
2024- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Yi Ding
2024- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD
Kodi Taraszka
2022- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD, Computer Science
2020- Doctoral student in Computer Science, UCLA (co-advised with Noah Zaitlen)
Understanding germline-somatic interactions at scale.
Shaye Carver
2021- Doctoral student, Harvard BBS
Using single-cell data to understand neurological disease.
Danielle Kurant
2021- Postdoctoral fellow. MD, Pathology
Connecting germline risk factors to cancer treatment outcomes.
Douglas Yao
2020- Doctoral student, Harvard SSQB
co-advised with Brian Cleary
Learning genetic interactions from perturbation screens.
Dennis Grishin
2022- Postdoctoral fellow, PhD
2019- Doctoral student, Harvard BBS
Characterizing germline and somatic non-coding drivers of cancer.
Intae Moon
2019- Doctoral student, MIT EECS
Molecular classification of tumors and treatment effect estimation.
Co-advised
Chaimaa Fadil
2023- Doctoral student, Harvard BBS
co-advised with Alkes Price
Multi-ancestry/multi-context risk prediction.
Ariel Wu
2023- AstraZeneca Postdoctoral fellow, PhD
co-advised with Vishwa Nellore
Predicting immunotherapy resistance.
Sarah Urbut
2022- Clinical fellow, MD PhD
co-advised with Pradeep Natarajan
Cardiovascular risk modelling.
Ryan Collins
2022- Postdoctoral fellow, PhD
co-advised with Eli Van Allen and Kevin Haigis
Rare structural variants in cancer.
Zeyun Lu
2022- PhD candidate in Biostatistics, USC
co-advised with Nick Mancuso
Integrating GWAS with CRISPR screens.
Ella Petter
2022- Doctoral student, UCLA
co-advised with Noah Zaitlen
Identifying biomarkers for treatment response.
Jacclyn LoPiccolo
2021- Medical Oncology Fellow, MD
co-advised with Pasi Jänne
Characterizing the genetics of young onset lung cancer.
Alumni
Harveer Singh
2022-2023 Masters student, MIT MEng
Stefan Groha
2018- Postdoctoral fellow. DPhil, Physics
2023: AI/ML Engineer, Causal Machine Learning at GSK
Carlos Arevalo Rivas
2022- Computational Biologist
2023: Junior Specialist at UCSC
Sylvan Baca
2019- Medical Oncology Fellow, MD, PhD (co-advised with Matt Freedman)
2022: Faculty Member at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Cynthia Kalita
2019- Postdoctoral fellow. PhD, Molecular Biology
2022: Senior Scientist at Dewpoint Therapeutics
Jian Carrot-Zhang
2020- Instructor, PhD, Genetics (co-advised with Matthew Meyerson)
2022: Assistant Professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Austin Wang
2018- Research assistant, MEng, CS & Molecular Biology
2020: Doctoral student at Stanford
Anamay Shetty
2018- Undergraduate researcher (co-advised with Matt Freedman)
2019: Medical Student at the University of Cambridge
Rotations
Patrick O’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