Dana Pe'er

Dana Pe’er, an expert in single-cell analysis and machine learning, is Chair of the Computational and Systems Biology Program at the Sloane Kettering Institute and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator.

She completed a Bachelor of Science and a master's in Mathematics, and a PhD in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before going on to do postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School.

In 2006, she established a research group at Columbia University where she developed computational methods to integrate diverse genomic data sources, significantly advancing the understanding of molecular networks and their role in disease, particularly cancer. Her work at Sloan Kettering focuses on cellular plasticity, intra-tumour heterogeneity and the evolution and metastasis of cancer cells.

Dana is a member of the organising committee for the Human Cell Atlas project and co-chair of the Analysis Working Group, and she serves on the scientific advisory board of scverse. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career, including the Packard Fellowship in 2009, the Overton Prize in 2015 and the HHMI Investigator Award in 2016.