Sahand Hormoz, PhD

Sahand Hormoz, PhD

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617-582-7361

Biography

Sahand Hormoz, PhD

Dr. Hormoz obtained his PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University working with Michael Brenner. His postdoctoral studies were conducted jointly as a theorist at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (UCSB) with Boris Shraiman, and as an experimentalist in the lab of Michael Elowitz at Caltech. Dr. Hormoz is Associate Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard University. He is faculty of the department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and the department of Data Science at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is also an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and affiliated with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Harvard Cancer Center. He is a faculty member of the System, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology PhD program and the Harvard Biophysics graduate program.

Researcher

Physician

Associate Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Research

    I am an experimental biologist and a theoretical physicist working on problems in dynamics of development and diseases such as cancer. As an experimentalist, I use synthetic biology and high throughput single-molecule imaging to study mammalian cells. As a theorist, I use tools from statistical physics and sometimes counterintuitive mathematics to interpret the data generated by my experiments. Ultimately, I am looking for general theoretical principles for understanding collective dynamics in populations of proliferating cells.

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    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    450 Brookline Ave Center for Life Science Building Boston, MA 02215
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