Doga Gulhan

Doga is the Principal Investigator of Gulhan Lab at Mass General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center and an Assitant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics (Secondary) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Bilkent University's Physics Department. She completed her Ph.D. in high-energy physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a Research Fellow at CERN. After transitioning to biomedical informatics, she joined Park Lab at the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), HMS as a postdoctoral fellow. She studied mutational processes in cancer using signature analysis techniques. She contributed new algorithms to this emerging field that expanded its clinical applications by enabling signature prediction from targeted gene panels and robust signature discovery and assignments from whole exome and genome datasets.  Additionally, she studied immunogenomic and molecular characteristics of tumors with repair deficiencies.
Her research program is dedicated to developing a comprehensive suite of tools for deciphering cancer genomes profiled through liquid and tissue biopsies. These tools target early cancer detection, patient classification and tumor evolution.