{"id":15,"date":"2014-10-08T19:45:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T19:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:20:20","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2574 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2024\/07\/maayanlab_july2024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2024\/07\/maayanlab_july2024.png 704w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2024\/07\/maayanlab_july2024-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Head of Laboratory<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-782 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2014\/10\/a_maayan_wide.png\" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/icahn.mssm.edu\/profiles\/avi-maayan\"><strong>Avi Ma&#8217;ayan PhD<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nMount Sinai Endowed Professor in Bioinformatics<br \/>\nCenter Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/icahn.mssm.edu\/research\/bioinformatics\">Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences<br \/>\nProfessor, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health<br \/>\nPrincipal Investigator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountsinai.org\/about\/newsroom\/2023\/icahn-school-of-medicine-at-mount-sinai-and-the-university-of-california-san-diego-receive-eight-million-award-to-establish-a-data-integration-hub-for-nih-common-fund-supported-programs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Resource Center for the Common Fund Data Ecosystem<\/a><br \/>\nPrincipal Investigator,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/proteomics.cancer.gov\/programs\/cptac\/consortium\/cptac-teams\">Mount Sinai&#8217;s Proteogenomic Data Analysis Center<\/a><br \/>\nPrincipal Investigator, <a title=\"LymeMIND Data Coordination Center\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lymemind.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LymeMIND Data Coordination Center<\/a><br \/>\nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai<br \/>\nE-mail: <a href=\"mailto:avi.maayan@mssm.edu\" target=\"foreign_site\" rel=\"noopener\">avi.maayan@mssm.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Program Director<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-628 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/10\/jenkins_v1.png\" alt=\"jenkins_v1\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Sherry Jenkins, MS<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector, <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/summer-research-program\/\">Summer Research Training Program in Biomedical Big Data Science<\/a><br \/>\nMS in Computer Science<br \/>\nFairleigh Dickinson University<br \/>\nE-mail: <a href=\"mailto:sherry.jenkins@mssm.edu\" target=\"foreign_site\" rel=\"noopener\">sherry.jenkins@mssm.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Data Scientist<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1424 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/04\/clarke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Daniel Clarke, MS<\/strong><br \/>\nData Science Analyst III<br \/>\nBS, MS in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering<br \/>\nFairleigh Dickinson University<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Bioinformatician<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2054 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/06\/je_evangelista.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>John Erol Evangelista, MS<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatician II<br \/>\nBS, MS in Computer Science<br \/>\nUniversity of the Philippines Diliman<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Bioinformatics Software Engineers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2571 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2024\/07\/a_byrd-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Anna Byrd, MEng<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Software Engineer<br \/>\nMEng in Computer Engineering<br \/>\nBE in Biomedical Engineering<br \/>\nBA in Engineering Sciences<br \/>\nDartmouth College<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2222 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/09\/diamant.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ido Diamant, BS<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Software Engineer<br \/>\nBS in Biomedical Engineering, Minor: Computer Science<br \/>\nUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3123 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2026\/01\/j_gardner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>John Gardner, BA<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Software Engineer<br \/>\nBA in Applied Mathematics<br \/>\nUniversity of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2728 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/07\/l_taub.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lily Taub, MSc<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Software Engineer<br \/>\nMSc in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Dartmouth College<br \/>\nBA in Computer Science, Middlebury College<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Graduate Student<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2668 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/01\/abinanda_p.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Abinanda Prabhakaran<\/strong><br \/>\nMaster&#8217;s Student<br \/>\nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"2024\"><strong>2026 Undergraduate Trainees in our Biomedical Big Data Science Program<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3144 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2026\/06\/m_aguiar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Mell Aguiar<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Trainee<br \/>\nChemistry, Princeton University<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3146 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2026\/06\/k_chen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Karen Chen<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Trainee<br \/>\nApplied Mathematics, Brown University<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3148 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2026\/06\/w_dong.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Winson Dong<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Trainee<br \/>\nBiometry and Statistics (major), Ecological Biology (minor), Cornell University<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3150 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2026\/06\/j_hadley.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Jacob Hadley<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Trainee<br \/>\nApplied Mathematics and Computer Science, Brown University<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3152 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2026\/06\/v_hsiang.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Vera Hsiang<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Trainee<br \/>\nApplied Mathematics (major), Biomedical Engineering (minor), Columbia University<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3154 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2026\/06\/a_pan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Andrew Pan<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Trainee<br \/>\nBiomedical Engineering (major), Computer Science (minor), Columbia University<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3155 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2026\/06\/d_park.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Duncan Park<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Trainee<br \/>\nMathematics and Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematical Biology concentration, Cornell University<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3157 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2026\/06\/c_qin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Chloe Qin<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Trainee<br \/>\nComputational Neuroscience, Brown University<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3162 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2026\/06\/n_rajpal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Nitya Rajpal<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Trainee<br \/>\nComputational Biology, Brown University<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3159 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2026\/06\/a_rashaeed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Aleeza Rasheed<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Trainee<br \/>\nComputer Science and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2709 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/06\/d_zhu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Daniel Zhu<\/strong><br \/>\nBioinformatics Trainee<br \/>\nComputer Science, Brown University<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/team\/alumni\/\">Alumni<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Laboratory Avi Ma&#8217;ayan PhD Mount Sinai Endowed Professor in Bioinformatics Center Director, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health Principal Investigator, Data Resource Center for the Common Fund Data Ecosystem Principal Investigator,\u00a0Mount Sinai&#8217;s Proteogenomic Data Analysis Center Principal Investigator, LymeMIND Data Coordination 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