Professor and Board Member
at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Dr. Itai Yanai is a professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degrees in computer engineering and the philosophy of science and his PhD in bioinformatics from Boston University. His lab is a pioneer of the single-cell RNA-Seq approach and its application to the functional study of development, host-pathogen interactions and cancer cell states. The Yanai lab has used computational and experimental approaches to make contributions to diverse fields, including the evolution of developmental gene expression programs, cellular plasticity and developmental constraint in tumor progression and drug resistance and bacterial genome regulation. Yanai has also co-authored a popular science book, entitled “The Society of Genes”, along with Dr. Martin Lercher from Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf. Together with Lercher, he has also founded the Night Science Institute, which champions a cultural shift in science by training researchers to embrace the creative Night Science process as an essential complement to rigorous hypothesis testing.
Accreditations
Doctor of Philosophy recognised by Boston University
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