Azizi Lab @ Columbia

COMPUTATIONAL CANCER BIOLOGY LABORATORY

Our interdisciplinary research utilizes novel machine learning techniques and cutting-edge genomic and imaging technologies, to characterize complex populations of interacting cells in the tumor microenvironment as well as their underlying circuitry.

Our lab is primarily affiliated with the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics (IICD) at Columbia University. We are also affiliated with the Computer Science Department, Data Science Institute and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.

2022

Achille and Joy's paper accepted at the Workshop on Computational Biology at ICML
Cameron and Shouvik's paper accepted at the Workshop on Computational Biology at ICML
The lab receives an NSF CAREER Award
Joy's preprint in collaboration with the Izar lab, "Multi-modal single-cell and whole-genome sequencing of minute, frozen specimens to propel clinical applications", published on Biorxiv
The lab receives a Columbia Provost's Grant for contributing to the diversity goals of the University

2021

Our paper "Mapping the evolution of T cell states during response and resistance to adoptive cellular therapy" is published in Cell Reports. Highlighted in Theory Lab Podcast discussion led by American Cancer Society
Yinuo Jin receives the Presidential Distinguished Fellowship
The lab is featured in Columbia Engineering Magazine story on AI in Health and Medicine
Xueer, Joy, Cameron and Lauren's paper accepted at Workshop on Computational Biology at ICML
Azizi lab selected for funding in the Columbia Research Initiatives in Science & Engineering competition with Dr. Benjamin Izar and Dr. Richard Carvajal

2020

Yinuo Jin and Alex Toberoff's paper accepted at LMRL Workshop at NeurIPS
Azizi lab awarded HICCC Intra/InterProgrammatic Pilot grant, with Dr. Ran Reshef
Azizi lab featured in Columbia Engineering Magazine Faculty Q&A
Joy Fan receives the Van C. Mow fellowship
Cameron Park receives the Kaganov fellowship
Columbia University Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center features our research
Columbia University Bio Bytes Podcast chat with Elham Azizi
Azizi lab awarded Data Science Institute Seed Grant in partnership with IICD, with Dr. Jellert Gaublomme and Dr. Brent Stockwell

JSM 2022 Special Session on Statistical methods for single cell genomics and spatial transcriptomics, August 2022.
Probing Human Disease Using Single-Cell Technologies Fusion Conference, May 2022
Keynote Speaker, University of Pennsylvania Bioengineering Graduate Research Symposium, April 2022.
Keynote Speaker, Women in Science at Columbia (WISC) Graduate Research Symposium, April 2022.
Dept. of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, March 2022.
NIAID Data Science Seminar, December 2021.
UNC Computational Medicine Seminar, November 2021.
Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series, November 2021.
Redirected Immune Cell Therapies Webinar, The New York Academy of Sciences, September 2021.
University of Washington Machine Learning in Computational Biology Seminar Series, May 2021.
NYU Biomedical Engineering Colloquium, April 2021.
ENAR Invited session on Bulk deconvolution and single-cell data analysis, March 2021.
NYU Pathology Department Research Seminar Series, March 2021.