Assistant Professor, Computational and Systems Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Caleb Lareau is a recipient of the 2024 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants for his proposal, “Resolving the Virome within the Human Immunome.”
Dr. Lareau is an assistant professor in the Computational and Systems Biology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He leads a hybrid experimental and computational lab focused on studying systems immunology in cancer and infection. With support from the Michelson Prize, Caleb and his team will study the blood virome— the billions of viruses that our immune system interacts with daily. This work will shine light on a basic question: how do humans have vastly different responses to the same infections? To tackle this, Dr. Lareau will study the intersection between variation in viral nucleic acids and genetic variation in the population of hundreds of thousands of individuals by mining petabyte-scale data.