Our Research Team
Christina Curtis, PhD, MSc
Professor of Medicine and Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Co-Director, Molecular Tumor Board, Stanford Cancer Institute
Christina Curtis, PhD, MSc is an Endowed Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University where she leads the Cancer Computational and Systems Biology group. Dr. Curtis also serves as the Director of Breast Cancer Translational Research and Co-Director of the Molecular Tumor Board at the Stanford Cancer Institute. Dr. Curtis’s laboratory leverages computational modeling, high-throughput molecular profiling and experimentation to develop new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Her research has helped to redefine the molecular map of breast cancer and led to new paradigms in understanding how human tumors evolve and metastasize.
Dr. Curtis is the recipient of numerous awards, including those from the V Foundation for Cancer Research, STOP Cancer and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). She received the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2018, the Stanford Prize in Population Genetics and Society (2020) and was named an In vivo Rising Leader in the Life Sciences (2021) and the Julius B. Kahn Visiting Professor in the Dept of Pharmacology, at Northwestern University (2020). In 2022 she received the AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science. Dr. Curtis is also Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, a Susan G. Komen Scholar and a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator.
Dr. Curtis serves as a scientific advisor to multiple academic institutes and biotech and was elected to the AACR Board of Directors in 2022. She also serves on the editorial board of journals spanning computational biology to precision oncology.
Audris Chiang, MD
Dermatology Resident, Clinical Fellow (jointly advised with Prof Kavita Sarin)
MD, University of California - Irvine
Markús Isfeld Diehl
Graduate Student, Computational Immunology (jointly advised by Prof Ansuman Satpathy)
BA, University of Chicago
Noah Greenwald
Graduate Student, Cancer Biology (jointly advised by Prof Michael Angelo)
BA, Harvard University (Biophysics)
Kathleen Houlahan, PhD
Postdoc
PhD, University of Toronto, Canada
Aziz Khan, PhD
Computational Staff Scientist
PhD, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Eran Kotler, PhD
Gruss Lipper Postdoctoral Fellow (jointly advised by Prof Anshul Kundaje)
PhD, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Katherine (Kat) Liu
Graduate Student Biology (jointly advised with Prof Michael Bassik)
MS, University of California - San Diego (Biology)
Sanavy Lou
Administrative Support
Zhicheng Ma, MD, MS
Senior Research Associate
MD, Hunan Medical University, China
MS, Central South University, China
Lisa Mangiante, PhD
Postdoc
PhD, IARC-WHO, Lyon
Prisni Rath, MSc
Staff Bioinformatician
MSc, Newcastle University, UK
Ryan Schenck, DPhil
Postdoc
DPhil, University of Oxford
Alexandra Sockell
Graduate Student, Genetics (NSF Fellow) (jointly advised with Prof Polly Fordyce)
BA, Vanderbilt University (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
Susanne Tilk
Graduate Student, Biology (jointly advised by Prof Dmitri Petrov)
BS, University of California - Santa Barbara (Cell and Developmental Biology)
Wing Wong, PhD
Postdoc
PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
Wenting Yang, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow
PhD, University of Tübingen, Germany
MSc, Yangzhou University, China
Hang Xu, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow
PhD, University of Nottingham, UK
Yanding Zhao, PhD, MSc
Postdoc (jointly advised by Prof Howard Chang)
PhD, Dartmouth University
Lab Alumni
Jennifer Caswell-Jin, MD
Former Clinical/Postdoctoral fellow
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Joe Charalel
Former Graduate student
Bain & Company
Jie Ding, PhD
Former Computational Scientist
Veracyte Inc
Aaron Horning, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow (joint with Prof Mike Snyder)
Project manager for HUBMAP/HTAN FAP project
Zheng Hu, PhD
Former Postdoc
Group Leader, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Kremena Karagyozova
Former Research Technician
Kasper Karlsson, PhD
Former Postdoc
Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Kaitlyn Lagattuta
Former student
MD/PhD student, Harvard University
Carina Lorenz
Former Visiting student (Cologne, Germany)
Katherine McNamara
Former MD, PhD Student
Radiology Resident, Stanford University
Chris Probert
Former Graduate student
Insitro
Moritz Pryzbilla
Former Masters student (Heidelberg, Germany)
Graduate student, Sanger Institute, UK
Johannes Reiter, PhD
Former Instructor (Erwin Schrödinger Fellow) (jointly advised with Prof Sanjiv Sam Gambhir)
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Oscar Rueda, PhD
Former Visiting Scientist (University of Cambridge)
Jose Seoane, PhD
Former Postdoc
Group leader Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona
Scott Shaffer, PhD
Former Visiting Scientist
Andrea Sottoriva, PhD
Former Postdoc
Director of Computational Biology, Human Technopole, Milan
Preethi Srinivasan, PhD
Former Computational Staff Scientist
Natera
Krystal Straessler, PhD
Former Postdoc (Cancer Systems Biology Fellow)
Medical Student, University of Utah
Ruping Sun, PhD
Former Instructor
Assistant Professor, Masonic Cancer Center, Minnesota