Director, Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi), MIT Associate Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering,MIT

In addition to his position at CSBi, Peter Sorger also holds associate appointments at the MIT Center for Cancer Research and the Broad Institute. Sorger received his A.B. in Molecular Biology from Harvard in 1984, and his Ph.D. from Trinity College, Cambridge University, in 1993. He trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Harold Varmus and Andrew Murray at the University of California, San Francisco. Sorger's lab -- 19 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staff scientists -- is attempting to identify the molecular lesions that cause genomic instability, to determine their frequency in normal and cancerous cells and to develop improved means to kill selectively diseased tissues