ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Institute for Genomic Health

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Dr. Asgari is an Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY. She completed her M.Sc. in stem cell biology at the University of Tehran, Iran, her Ph.D. in human genomics of infectious diseases at the Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland, and her postdoctoral training in statistical genomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA. The overarching goal of the Asgari lab is to understand how human genetic, demographic, and environmental diversity translates to phenotypic diversity in the immune system and how these variations impact the clinical outcomes of infectious diseases. The lab achieves this goal by integrating electronic health records, multi-omics datasets, in vitro and in silico experimental models, statistical inference, and machine learning approaches.