Riaz Lab

At the intersection of the DNA damage response and the immune system.

Our lab elucidates how defects in DNA repair influence anti-cancer immunity and, in turn, expand opportunities to personalize widely used cancer therapies such as radiotherapy. We pair computational analyses of human‑tumor datasets with murine and cellular models to identify causal, clinically relevant biology. Our group is a diverse multidisciplinary team of computational biologists, wet-lab scientists, and clinical trialists working in unison toward this goal.