Aviv Regev is a computational and systems biologist. She is a biology professor at MIT, an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, chair of the faculty and director of the Klarman Cell Observatory and Cell Circuits Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and co-chair of the organizing committee for the international Human Cell Atlas project. In her research, Regev studies the molecular circuitry that governs the function of mammalian cells in health and disease. She has pioneered many leading experimental and computational methods for the reconstruction of circuits, including in single-cell genomics. Regev’s honors include the 2017 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research.
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When it is complete, the Human Cell Atlas will be a comprehensive searchable map of our cells — a “Google map for the human body.” By combining elegant science and painstaking...