Itay Tirosh

Itay Tirosh, Ph.D. is the Dr. Celia Zwillenberg-Fridman and Dr. Lutz Zwillenberg Career Development Chair in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His research combines computational and experimental methods to study human tumors as a complex ecosystem in which diverse cancer and non-cancer cells interact and collectively determine tumor biology and response to therapies. Tirosh’s work is focused on leveraging single cell technologies, computational approaches and clinical collaborations to analyze the diversity of cells within human tumors to identify important tumor subpopulations and understand their implications for cancer therapy. Tirosh received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science where he studied computational biology. He completed his postdoctoral research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.