Asher Preska Steinberg

Hello! If you’ve stumbled upon this page, it probably means you are interested in my research. This is a constant work in progress, but hopefully you’ll walk away with some sense of what I’ve been up to scientifically.

I am a computational biologist in the Computational Oncology Program at MSK. Currently, I am working on collaborative research efforts between Alex Kentsis’ team at the Tow Center for Developmental Oncology and Sohrab Shah and Andrew McPherson’s team in Computational Oncology. With the team, I am developing computational methods to define the genomics, proteomics, and evolution of cancers in children and young adults. I did my postdoctoral training in the Department of Biology at NYU with Edo Kussell where I was a Simons Fellow of the LSRF. Before this, I did my PhD in Chemistry at Caltech under the mentorship of Rustem Ismagilov. During my training, my research focused on applying biophysical approaches, both computationally and experimentally, to problems ranging from the soft matter physics of the gut to microbial recombination.