MSK Employee Spotlight | @dana_peer, Chair of the Computational and Systems Biology Program the Sloan Kettering institute (SKI) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), was recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the most respected distinctions in science and medicine. Dr. Pe’er is a preeminent computational biologist whose work has transformed how scientists use large-scale genomic data to understand complex biological systems. Her lab has pioneered widely used machine-learning and AI approaches to reveal how cells take on certain states, communicate with one another, and organize into tissues. She applies these approaches to fundamental questions in organismal development and in cancer, with a focus on cellular plasticity, metastasis, and how cancer cells shape — and are shaped by — their tissue ecosystems during progression and therapy. Currently, Dr. Pe’er is the Chair of Computational and Systems Biology and Scientific Director of SKI’s Single-cell Analytics Innovation Lab, as well as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She holds the Alan and Sandra Gerry Endowed Chair. Join us in congratulating Dr. Pe'er in the comments below!