Ash A. Alizadeh

Ash A. Alizadeh is the Moghadam Family Professor of Medicine, Oncology, and Hematology (by courtesy) at Stanford University, where he serves as leader of the Cancer Genomics Program at Stanford Cancer Institute. He holds multiple academic appointments including Professor in Medicine - Oncology, and membership in Bio-X, the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, and the Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI).

Dr. Alizadeh received his BS in Biochemistry from UCLA (1994), MD from Stanford Medical School, and PhD in Biophysics from Stanford. He completed additional training at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

His primary research focuses on developing and applying genome technologies and computing (machine learning & data science) to problems in human disease, with special emphasis on cancer detection, classification, monitoring, and tumor immunology. His laboratory pioneers noninvasive cancer genomic techniques including CAPP-Seq, PhasED-Seq, and EPIC-Seq for "liquid biopsies" that analyze circulating nucleic acids for early cancer detection and monitoring therapeutic response. Using machine learning approaches, his group studies how cellular compositional variation impacts cancer behavior and therapeutic response, including anti-tumor immunity. His work spans molecular, cellular, organism and population levels of tumor behavior analysis.

Dr. Alizadeh has received numerous prestigious awards including the Scholar Award from the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the V-Foundation, as well as awards from the American Red Cross, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, and Doris Duke Charitable Research Foundation. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF).

As an educator and mentor, Dr. Alizadeh advises numerous doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and medical scholars. He teaches in the Department of Medicine and Immunology and serves on various admissions panels at Stanford. His laboratory, the Alizadeh Lab, is a hub for interdisciplinary cancer genomics research that combines computational biology, molecular genetics, and clinical oncology to develop novel cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.