Jiri Zavadil, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine
Assistant Director, NYU Genome Technology Core, NYU Langone Medical Center

Jiri obtained his PhD in Biomedicine and Molecular Genetics in 1998 at Charles University, Prague. Between 1999-2003 he trained as Postdoctoral Fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York, where he studied cell signaling and gene regulation in cell phenotype plasticity using molecular profiling and bioinformatics approaches. He also served as Scientific Supervisor of the Albert Einstein Biotechnology Center, the NIDDK-sponsored laboratory for microarray expression profiling and data analysis.

Since 2003, he is Assistant Professor of Pathology, NYU Langone Medical Center and serves as Assistant Director of the NYU Cancer Institute Genomics Facility and of the NYU Genome Technology Center, and a member of CHIBI. He has been coordinating genomics projects for over 100 investigators, and participated in numerous molecular profiling studies focused on human disease pathogenesis and developmental biology to which he contributed his expertise in experimental design, complex data analysis and biological interpretation.

Using bioinformatics approaches applied to complex data sets derived from integrative “omics” applications (transcriptomics and protemics, microRNA:mRNA regulatory networks), Jiri seeks to discover key signature genes, deregulated pathways and biomarkers characterizing various human disease states, and to elucidate novel transcriptional and epigenetic gene regulation mechanisms underlying the development of human malignancies and tissue injury.

Address:
400 E 34th Street, RR810
New York University Langone Medical Center
New York, NY 10016, USA
Phone: +1-212-263-8048
Fax: +1-212-263-0443