Dimitris Anastassiou

Titles

Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering
Director, Genomic Information Systems Laboratory

Affiliations

Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Systems Biology
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Center for Cancer Systems Therapeutics

Email

anastas@ee.columbia.edu

Website

Lab Website

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Dimitris Anastassiou is Charles Batchelor Professor and director of the Genomic Information Systems Laboratory at the Department of Electrical Engineering, and a member of the Department of Systems Biology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and the Center for Cancer Systems Therapeutics (CaST).? He is an IEEE Fellow, the recipient of an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award, a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, and a Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. His current research is focused on the discovery and elucidation of "pan-cancer" biomolecular mechanisms shared by multiple cancer types, as well as potential diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic applications associated with these mechanisms.?Before becoming interested in systems biology, he conducted research in the area of video technology and authored several patents that have been essential for the implementation of international video standards.

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Awards and Grants
Columbia Awarded NCI Center for Cancer Systems Biology The Center for Cancer Systems Therapeutics (CaST) is developing a framework that can account for the dynamic nature of cancer and use this knowledge to disrupt the programs that maintain tumor survival.


Research News
Anastassiou Lab Is a Best Performer in DREAM Breast Cancer Challenge By looking for "attractor metagenes" in genomic and clinical data, a Columbia University team developed a computational model that was best able to predict prognosis.