Neville Sanjana

Neville Sanjana, PhD, is a Core Faculty Member at the New York Genome Center and Professor in the Departments of Biology and of Neuroscience and Physiology at New York University. As a bioengineer, Dr. Sanjana has developed high-throughput genome engineering tools to understand the impact of genetic changes on cancer evolution, viral pathogenesis, drug resistance and the nervous system. Recent work from his lab identified synthetic cell programs to enhance cell therapies for blood cancers and solid tumors and developed new methods to identify causal noncoding variants and their target genes at scale. Dr. Sanjana is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Engineers and Scientists, AAAS Wachtel Prize for Cancer Research, the NIH's New Innovator Award, the Cancer Research Institute Technology Impact Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Kimmel Scholar Award, the MRA Young Investigator Award, and also is the Leichtung Family Investigator of the Brain and Behavior Foundation. He is a co-founder and advisor to OverT Bio and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of QIAGEN. Dr. Sanjana holds a PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT, a BS in Symbolic Systems and a BA in English from Stanford University.