Ethan Cerami

Director, Knowledge Systems Group Principal Scientist, Dept of Data Sciences @Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Boston, MA, US
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WORK HISTORY

Feb 2015 — Present

Director, Knowledge Systems Group Principal Scientist, Dept of Data Sciences @Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Boston, MA, US

Lead team of 30 Computational Biologists and Software Engineers in building software tools and products for cancer genomics research and precision cancer medicine.• Principal Investigator for two NCI Moonshot “Big Data” Initiatives: the Cancer Immunologic Data Commons (CIDC), and the Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) Data Coordinating Center (DCC).• Co-Principal Investigator for the cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics, the most widely used analysis and visualization tool for cancer genomics data.• Spearhead development of MatchMiner, an open source clinical trial matching software platform for precision cancer medicine. Winner of 2016 Harvard Business School Clinical Trials Competition and 2017 BioIT Best in Show.• Lead R&D development for multiple clinical molecular assays, including OncoPanel NGS Assay and ImmunoProfile Multiplex Imaging assay.• Key leader of the AACR GENIE Data Sharing Project (corresponding author on first GENIE paper, published in Cancer Discovery).• Key leader of the Intel Collaborative Cancer Cloud Project to facilitate secure joint computation across multiple cancer centers.

EDUCATION

1994 — 1998

New York University

MS, Computer Science

1988 — 1992

Columbia University

BA, History

2007 — 2011

Cornell University

Ph.D., Computational Biology

SKILLS

CancerJavaComputational BiologyInformaticsBig DataProject ManagementSystems BiologyAlgorithmsGenomicsHigh Performance ComputingRDatabasesBioinformaticsSoftware EngineeringCancer GenomicsScientific ComputingNosqlPython

ABOUT ETHAN CERAMI

Director of the Knowledge Systems Group at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Committed to building open source software for cancer, teaching computer science, and writing about AI in cancer. Substack at: https://cancerai.substack.com/.

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