Hani Goodarzi, PhD Assistant Professor Biography Cancer, fundamentally, is a disease of disordered gene expression. Cancer cells rely on deregulated expression of oncogenic and tumor suppressive pathways to initiate and maintain the transformation process. Thus, delineating how cancer cells achieve such pathologic gene expression states is a crucial step towards understanding and ultimately treating cancer as a disease. Towards achieving this goal, my laboratory employs a systems biological and multidisciplinary approach that integrates computational and experimental strategies to identify and characterize key regulatory programs that underlie cancer progression. The systems-level frameworks implemented in our lab ensure a truly unbiased and systematic approach to studying this key biological challenge. Such bottom-up and agnostic approaches are crucial for discovering pathways that fall outside of our prior knowledge of regulatory interactions and would otherwise remain hidden in a top-down reductionist framework. Education & Training 2016-present: Assistant Professor. Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Department of Urology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center 2012-2016: Postdoctoral Fellow in Cancer Genomics. Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology at Rockefeller University. 2010-2012: Postdoctoral Associate in Genomics. Princeton/Columbia University. 2010: PhD, Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Thesis Title: Experimental and Computational Approaches for Genetic Dissection of Complex Phenotypes 2006: BS, Biotechnology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Awards & Honors 2018: UCSF Catalyst Award 2018: New Directions in Prostate Cancer Research Award 2017: AAAS Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award 2017: AACR NextGen Award for Transformative Cancer Research 2017: Sidney Kimmel Cancer Foundation Scholar Award 2015: Blavatnik Regional Award Winner for Life Sciences 2015: Tri-Institutional Breakout Prize for Junior Investigators 2015: NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) 2014: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award 2014: RUCCTS/CDDS/SCBN Pilot Project Award 2012: Anderson Cancer Center Postdoctoral Fellowship 2006: William G. Bowen Merit Fellowship 2005: Top undergraduate student in the Department of Biotechnology (University of Tehran) 2004: Ministry of Sciences, Research and Technology Fellowship, Iran 2002: University of Tehran Fellowship, Iran 2002: Presidential Award for Exceptional Talents, Iran 2002: Silver medal, The 13th International Biology Olympiad, Latvia 2001: Gold medal in the 4th National Biology Olympiad in Tehran, Iran 2001: Member, Young Scholar’s Club (Tehran, Iran)