Assaf Magen
Senior computational biologist / Postdoc
Assaf Magen, Ph.D., is a computational biologist studying the contribution of phagocytes to tumor development in liver and lung cancers by developing analytical strategies to mine single-cell genomics and multiplex imaging data. During his doctoral work, he identified novel subsets of immune cells and their prognostic value in murine and human tumors. He is currently working on characterizing the crosstalk between immune, malignant and stromal cells, and how their interactions may affect hepatocellular carcinoma development and patient response to immunotherapy. In addition, he is interested in identifying epigenetic programs involved in myeloid cell differentiation and plasticity during tumor development.
Fun facts about myself:
I Know my way around hacking any system
I run 10 miles every day
I find Immunobiology the most exciting conversation topic ever