Dana Pe'er

Dana Pe’er is an HHMI Investigator, Chair of the Computational and Systems Biology Program and Director of the Gerry Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center and Single Cell Analytics and Innovation Lab at the Sloan Kettering Institute. The Pe’er lab combines single-cell technologies, genomic sequencing and imaging data, and machine learning techniques to address fundamental questions in biomedicine. Dr. Pe’er pioneered foundational approaches to derive biological cell states, trajectories and future cell fates from single-cell data. Her group has applied these methods to learn how cells reach healthy and aberrant states in development, immunity and cancer, with a focus on tumor heterogeneity, plasticity and tumor-immune interactions. Dr. Pe'er earned her PhD at the Hebrew University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. She is an ISCB Fellow and has received the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award, NSF CAREER award, Stand Up To Cancer Innovative Research Grant, NIH Director's New Innovator and Pioneer awards, Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award and ISCB Overton Prize. She serves on the editorial board of Cell, leads the MSK Center within the NCI Human Tumor Atlas Network, and co-heads computational analysis for the Human Cell Atlas project.