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Andrea Califano is an American biologist. He is a Clyde and Helen Wu professor of Chemical and Systems Biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He also has roles in the Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Biomedical Informatics, and Medicine.
Education and career
Califano earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1986. He then joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he became the program director of the IBM Computational Biology Center in 1997. He joined Columbia University in 2003.
Califano serves on various editorial and scientific advisory boards, including the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Cancer Institute, St. Jude Children's Hospital, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.. He is also the co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of DarwinHealth.
Research work
Califano is renowned for his work in reverse engineering gene regulatory networks and analyzing them to identify key tumor checkpoint modules. This research has led to several clinical trials, including an N-of-1 study that analyzes patients with 14 untreatable, lethal cancers individually to prioritize therapeutic strategies.
Honors and awards (selected)
NCI Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) in 2015 and 2022
AAAS Fellow (2015)
ISCB Fellow (2017)
Member of the National Academy of Medicine (2018)
2019 Ruth Leff prize in pancreatic cancer research
2023 Alfred G. Knudson prize in Cancer Genetics.
Fellow of the AACR Academy (2024)
References
External links
Andrea Califano publications indexed by Google Scholar
