Itsik Pe’er, PhD

Itsik Pe’er, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. Dr. Pe’er received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University, and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science and at the Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT. He came to Columbia where he developed a graduate track in computational biology. Dr. Pe’er ‘s research focuses around computational methods for analysis of high throughput genotype and sequencing data.

Dr. Pe’er is a member of multiple professional organizations and honor societies and serves on the scientific advisory boards and review panels of the NIH, Israeli Science Foundation as well as private companies. Dr. Pe’er has lectured in and organized numerous academic courses and symposia, both nationally and internationally. He has 50 published articles in peer-reviewed forums.