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Caleb Lareau is an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine's Graduate School of Medical Sciences with strong affiliations to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He leads the Lareau Lab which focuses on computational and translational immunology, investigating how immune cells adapt, expand, and evolve throughout human lifetimes.
Dr. Lareau earned his PhD from Harvard University and has established himself as a rising star in computational biology with numerous high-impact publications in top journals including Nature, Nature Genetics, and Nature Biotechnology. His research integrates advanced computational methods with single-cell multi-omics technologies to study somatic evolution in the immune system, with particular emphasis on mitochondrial DNA dynamics and applications to cancer immunotherapy.
His laboratory develops and applies cutting-edge methodologies including single-cell ATAC-seq, mitochondrial genotyping, and multi-omic profiling techniques. The research program demonstrates a clear trajectory from basic discovery to translational applications, with multiple publications revealing fundamental mechanisms of immune cell evolution that have direct implications for improving CAR T-cell therapies and understanding immunological diseases.
Dr. Lareau has received numerous prestigious awards including being named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (2022), STAT Wunderkind (2022), and receiving the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (2022-2027). His scholarly contributions have been recognized with the Stanford Science Fellowship (2020-2023) and earlier career support through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Barry M Goldwater Scholarship.
As an educator, Dr. Lareau is actively recruiting graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to his lab, emphasizing training for diverse career paths in academia, industry, science policy, and entrepreneurship. His lab includes research fellows, graduate research assistants, and technical staff working collaboratively on projects at the intersection of computational biology, immunology, and genomics. The Lareau Lab maintains strong collaborations across the Tri-Institutional community including Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Rockefeller University.
