Affiliation: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Charalampos A. Lazaris completed his Masters in Molecular Biology-Biomedicine at the University of Crete in Greece. He then completed a Masters in Bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and earned his PhD in Computational and Systems Biomedicine from New York University. At the moment, he is a Bioinformatics Scientist (postdoctoral researcher) at the Young Laboratory at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is also an Associated Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and he serves as a vice-chair of the NextGen Association for Postdocs and Graduate Students at Broad Institute. He has been trained both as a molecular and computational biologist and his research focuses on nuclear organization and transcriptional dysregulation in cancer with a special focus on hematologic malignancies.