Despoina Kalfakakou, PhD
Post-Doctoral Bioinformatics Fellow
Simeone Lab | Tsirigos Lab
NYU Langone Health
Project Title: Therapeutic impact of clonal heterogeneity of human pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Dr. Kalfakakou’s Bio:
Dr. Kalfakakou is a Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Co-Director of Precision Medicine and Director of the Applied Bioinformatics Laboratories at the NYU Grossman (SoM). She has more than 18 years of experience in genomics and machine learning at NYU and IBM Research. She has co-authored 130+ studies in peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact studies in cancer genomics and epigenomics, high-throughput single-cell transcriptomic analyses and cancer diagnostics using machine learning. Currently, her team includes 25 computational biologists and data scientists (faculty, research staff and trainees) and their vision is to leverage domain-specific expertise, big data and computational techniques to eventually help transform clinical practice to the benefit of our patients.