Itai Yanai

Itai Yanai is a Professor at the NYU School of Medicine, where his work revolves around studying dynamic biological processes through the lens of gene regulation and systems biology. Itai received his undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering and the Philosophy of Science and his PhD in Bioinformatics from Boston University. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and Harvard University. He started his lab as Assistant Professor at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. He then moved to NYU after a sabbatical at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a visiting professor at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He moved his lab to New York University in 2016. Itai has co-authored a popular science book, entitled “The Society of Genes”, along with Martin Lercher from Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf. With Martin, he is currently also publishing editorials and podcasting on the topic of ‘Night Science’, the scientific creative process.