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Peter K. Sorger, Ph.D. is a Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and holds a joint appointment in MIT’s Dept. of Biological Engineering and Center for Cancer Research. A former Marshall and Markey scholar, he holds an A.B, from Harvard College and Ph.D. from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, and Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. Dr. Sorger's lab consists of 26 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staff scientists involved in both computational and experimental biology. One of the long term goals of the lab's research is to identify molecular lesions that cause genomic instability and promote tumorigenesis, to determine their frequency in normal and cancerous cells and to develop improved means to kill diseased tissues. A second goal in the Sorger Lab is to understand the pathways of mammalian cell signaling from a systems rather than a component by component perspective. Dr. Sorger has published over 70 scientific papers and holds several patents. Co-founder and first Director of the MIT Computational and Systems Biology Program (CSBi), Dr. Sorger is also a member of the Broad Institute, the MIT Center for Cancer Research and the Board of Directors of Applied Precision, LLC. | 