Andrea Califano

Andrea Califano is the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the Founding Chair of the Department of Systems Biology, Director of the JP Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, and Associate Director for Bioinformatics of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, and also holds appointments in the Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics and Department of Biomedical Informatics. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the ISCB, AAAS, and IEEE. His lab uses a combination of computational and experimental methodologies to reconstruct the regulatory logic of human cells in genome-wide fashion to identify master regulator proteins responsible for human disease, including cancer and neurodegenerative syndromes.