Meet Our Team

Dmitriy Zamarin is the Section Head of Gynecologic Medical Oncology, a member of the Icahn Genomics Institute and the Precision Immunology Institute at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Principal Investigator of the Zamarin Lab. He has spent a decade as a faculty and Translational Research Director in Gynecologic Medical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center before transitioning to his current role in September of 2023. His research is focused on understanding of the mechanisms by which gynecologic cancers are recognized by the immune system and on identification of biomarkers predictive of response and resistance to immunotherapy. To learn more about Dr. Zamarin and his work, please visit our “About Us” page.

Melih Arda Ozsoy is an Associate Researcher from Bursa, Turkey. He has graduated from Brown University with honors in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2022, and since then, has been working under the guidance of Dr. Zamarin. During his time in college, Melih Arda wrote his senior’s thesis on immunologic signatures to front-line therapy in high grade serous ovarian cancer to better understand and ameliorate chemoresistance, for which he received The Llealyn B. Clapp Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis. His current research in the Zamarin Lab is on the use of oncolytic viruses for the treatment of various gynecological malignancies, with a specific focus on ovarian and endometrial cancers. 

Vasavi Koneru is an Associate Researcher from India. She got her Master’s in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from the University of South Florida. Vasavi’s main interest is in cancer genomics and drug discovery, and she has experience working with whole genome and next-generation sequencing techniques. Currently, Vasavi is working on analyzing cervical cancer data using single-cell RNA sequencing.