Sahand Hormoz

Sahand Hormoz is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Department of Data Science at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. His research focuses on controlling biological systems to understand cell state transitions and develop technologies for single-cell analysis, synthetic biology, and organoid modeling.

• PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University (advised by Michael Brenner)
• Postdoctoral work at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (UCSB) and Elowitz Lab at Caltech

Research Interests

His lab combines high-throughput single-cell measurements with differential geometry and machine learning to analyze complex biological data. They engineer cells for lineage tracing, develop organoid systems, and aim to automate biological modeling to overcome human cognitive limitations in understanding life systems.

Publication Trends

Key areas in his recent work include:

• Computational methods for single-cell and lineage analysis
• Cancer evolution in myeloproliferative neoplasms
• Synthetic biology tools for DNA-based cellular memory
• Integration of machine learning with biological dynamics
• Applications in stem cell biology and microbial systems
• Development of microfluidic platforms

Labs & Teams

Hormoz Lab at Harvard Medical School collaborates with Dana-Farber's Data Science Department to advance quantitative biology approaches.