{"id":71,"date":"2020-07-29T18:51:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T18:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/polaklab\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2020-11-05T20:15:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:15:51","slug":"investigator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/polaklab\/investigator\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/polaklab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/359\/2020\/07\/polak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am a computational biologist who currently studies cancer. Before I studied physics and mathematics at the Technion and the Weizmann Institute in Israel. And at some point, sequencing and genomics appeared and captured my interest as a data scientist.\u00a0 So, during my Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, I studied the genomes evolution of species but I wanted to understand how mutations happen in somatic tissues during the lifetime of cells. This led me to study cancer genomes. I studied what shapes somatic mutation rates along human chromosomes and with my colleagues we found that it is chromatin, transcription, and replication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My lab is dedicated to eliminating cancer and improving health via genomics and data analysis. We study the etiology of cancer across understudied populations with the goal of lowering cancer-related deaths and impacting the success of immunotherapies across a wide range of cancer patients. I have been building genomic partnerships with international and national partners in order to investigate the etiology of cancer and responses to it among different populations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a computational biologist who currently studies cancer. Before I studied physics and mathematics at the Technion and the Weizmann Institute in Israel. And at some point, sequencing and genomics appeared and captured my interest as a data scientist.\u00a0 So, during my Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, I studied the genomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/polaklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/polaklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/polaklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/polaklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/polaklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/polaklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/polaklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/polaklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}