Ekta Khuranaمشاهده پروفایل
دانشیار
Ekta Khurana is an Associate Professor at Systems and Computational Biomedicine , Weill Cornell Medical College, with a focus on computational methods to identify non-coding cancer drivers, chromatin architecture, and integrative genomics. Her work bridges machine learning with cancer biology to uncover regulatory mechanisms and therapeutic targets. Education Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2008) M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology (2002) B.Sc., University of Delhi (2000) Research Interests center on non-coding variants in cancer, 3D chromatin conformation, lineage plasticity, and regulatory network modeling. She pioneers tools like FunSeq2 and RegNetDriver to prioritize functional mutations in cancer genomes. Recent Articles (2023–2025) highlight her contributions to understanding TAD hierarchy disruptions, chromatin accessibility in prostate cancer, and machine learning applications for 3D genome analysis. Keywords: cancer driver discovery, non-coding mutations, chromatin structure, regulatory networks. Awards WorldQuant Foundation Research Scholar (2025) Grants include NCI-funded projects on non-coding oncogenic regions (2024–2029), Starr Cancer Consortium support for prostate cancer lineage plasticity (2024–2026), and NINDS funding for glioblastoma regulatory nodes (2024–2029).







