Gil Kanfer, Ph.D.

RESEARCH SUMMARY

Gil Kanfer is a Staff Scientist at the High-Throughput Imaging Facility (HiTIF), where he develops and applies spatial omics computational tools. His work bridges cutting-edge open-source analysis frameworks with custom-developed spatial statistics algorithms. These tools are used to support HiTIF collaborators in analyzing spatial transcriptomics and spatial proteomics datasets. During his PhD, he developed a fascination with functional genomics, which led him to join the Youle Lab at NINDS-NIH as a postdoctoral fellow in 2016, where his focus shifted from wet lab work to computational biology, specializing in image analysis and statistical modeling of large datasets. His goal is to use his computational expertise to advance biomedical research by developing and applying analytical solutions to spatial biology problems.

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