About M. Madan Babu
Dr. Babu is one of the pioneers to establish data science-based approaches to reveal principles of biological systems. He was recruited to St. Jude in 2020 as the Endowed Chair in Biological Data Science in the Department of Structural Biology and Director of the Center of Excellence for Data-Driven Discovery. Dr Babu was awarded the 2019 EMBO Gold Medal for his contributions to the field of computational biology. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK in 2021, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, UK in 2023. He leads a prolific and innovative research team leveraging computational and experimental methods to study biological systems at different scales of complexity.
Meet the Team
M. Madan Babu, PhD, FRSC, FMedSci, FRS
Principal Investigator
- Member, St. Jude Faculty
- Director, Center of Excellence for Data Driven Discovery
- Endowed Chair in Biological Data Sciences
- Preethi Badrinarayan
- Senior Computational Research Scientist
- Nil Casajuana Martin
- Graduate Student
- Assaf Elazar, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Cristina Guibao, PhD
- Scientist
- Alexander Gunnarsson, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Seyed Mohammad (Hadi) Hosseinim, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Georgi Kanev, PhD
- Senior Computational Research Scientist
- Benjamin Lang, PhD
- Lead Computational Research Scientist
- Ben Leslie, PhD
- Director of Lab Operations
- Duccio Malinverni, PhD
- Senior Bioinformatics Analyst
- Balint Meszaros, PhD
- Principal Computational Research Scientist
- Katarina Nemec, PhD
- Lead Researcher
- Electa (Elly) Park, PhD
- Administration and Operations Director
- Jaimin Patel
- Principal Software Engineer
- Daniel Estevez Prado, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Balaji Santhanam, PhD
- Principal Bioinformatics Research Scientist
- Besian I. Sejdiu, PhD
- Senior Bioinformatics Analyst
- Sarah (J) Sherman
- Graduate Student
- Vyoma Sheth
- Senior Computational Researcher
- Vikas Trivedi, PhD
- Scientist