Assistant Professor
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Volker Hovestadt is a computational biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He also is an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Prior, he received his MSc in Systems Biology from ETH Zurich in 2009, a PhD from the German Cancer Research Center (dfkz) in 2014, and concluded his post-doctoral research at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute in 2020. Dr. Hovestadt has made major contributions to the field of childhood brain tumor research, particularly in the analysis of tumor epigenomes. He is one of the main inventors of the Heidelberg brain tumor classifier, a machine learning tool for generating accurate patient diagnoses from genome-wide DNA methylation patterns. He also pioneered the study of cellular heterogeneity in childhood brain tumors through the lens of novel computational and experimental single cell techniques.
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Rapid Epigenomic Classification of Acute Leukemia
Friday, November 14, 2025
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST