Ethan Cerami
Director, Knowledge Systems Group Principal Scientist, Dept. Of Data Sciences
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolEthan Cerami is a seasoned computational biology and software leader with 15+ years building production platforms for cancer genomics and precision medicine, currently directing the Knowledge Systems Group and serving as Principal Scientist at Dana-Farber. He leads a 30-person team and as PI/Co-PI drives major NCI Moonshot initiatives (CIDC, HTAN DCC) and co-leads cBioPortal, the widely used open-source cancer genomics visualization tool. Ethan combines deep hands-on engineering—evident from his front-end contributions to cBioPortal’s web standards and accessibility—with program-level impact, having launched MatchMiner and steered multi-center data-sharing efforts like AACR GENIE and the Intel Collaborative Cancer Cloud. His background spans industry and academia, from building kinase-target discovery platforms at Blueprint Medicines to founding cBioPortal at MSK, and he holds a PhD in Computational Biology from Cornell. Notably, he pairs historical training (BA in History) with advanced CS and computational biology credentials, bringing a systems-thinking perspective to complex translational data problems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at New York UniversityPh.D., Computational Biology, Ph.D., Computational Biology at Cornell UniversityBA, History, BA, History at Columbia University
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cBioPortal/cbioportal
Jun 2011 - Mar 2020
cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:644 commits, 16 PRs, 53 pushes in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ethan's commits focus on updating and ensuring compliance with the W3C Validator for the cBioPortal repository. The commits involve changes to the structure and HTML of the website, specifically the header, and various JSP files. These changes likely aim to improve the website's accessibility and adherence to web standards.
precision-medicinesciencecbioportalgenomicscancer
ecerami/oopl
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:131 commits, 130 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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