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Single-cell genomics technology development

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Dana Pe'er

Dana Pe'er is an Israeli-American computational biologist who develops machine-learning methods for single-cell genomics and chairs computational and systems biology at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

Dmitri Petrov

Dmitri A. Petrov is an evolutionary biologist and population geneticist who holds the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professorship of Biology at Stanford University, studying genome evolution and adaptation.

Dominic Grün

Dominic Grün is a German computational systems biologist, professor at the University of Würzburg since 2021, known for single-cell RNA-seq analysis methods including RaceID, StemID, and VarID2.

Ido Amit

Ido Amit is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute who developed MARS-seq and related single-cell RNA sequencing technologies, applying them to immunity in cancer, autoimmunity, and neurodegeneration.

Itai Yanai

Itai Yanai is an Israeli-born computational biologist, a professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine since 2016, known for CEL-Seq single-cell sequencing and cancer cell states.

Jay Shendure

Jay Shendure is an American genomicist, an HHMI Investigator and professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington, known for pioneering next-generation DNA sequencing and single-cell genomics technologies.

Leona Samson

Leona D. Samson is an American biologist known for her work on DNA repair and how cells respond to DNA alkylation damage, now professor emerita at MIT.

Marc Kirschner

Marc W. Kirschner, born 1945 in Chicago, is an American cell and systems biologist at Harvard Medical School who discovered tau and founded Harvard's Cell Biology and Systems Biology departments.

Mark Bathe

Mark Bathe is a biological engineer and Professor at MIT who leads the Bathe BioNanoLab, known for DNA origami design algorithms and DNA-based vaccine scaffolds.

Oliver Stegle

Oliver Stegle is a German computational biologist who develops statistical and machine-learning methods for single-cell and spatial genomics, heading a joint DKFZ and EMBL division in Heidelberg.

Patrik Ernfors

Patrik Ernfors is a neuroscientist and Professor of Tissue Biology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for molecular classification of sensory neurons and The Brain Prize 2026.

Sarah Teichmann

Sarah A. Teichmann is a computational biologist known for single-cell genomics who co-founded the Human Cell Atlas and led Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Xiaojie Qiu

Xiaojie Qiu is a computational biologist and Stanford assistant professor, since 2023, known for creating Monocle, Dynamo, and Spateo, widely used tools for reconstructing cell-fate trajectories from single-cell RNA-sequencing data.

Ziv Bar-Joseph

Ziv Bar-Joseph (זיו בר-יוסף) is a computational biologist and computer scientist, the FORE Systems Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, known for machine-learning methods for single-cell and spatial genomics and the 2012 Overton Prize.