Yuri Pritykin

Yuri Pritykin

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Genomics

Princeton University

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University.

I am also affiliated with the Department of Molecular Biology and the Bioengineering Institute, and am an Associate Member at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

Previously I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Leslie lab in Computational and Systems Biology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. I received PhD in computer science from Princeton University advised by Mona Singh and MSc and PhD in mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University advised by Alexei Semenov and Andrej Muchnik. I graduated from Moscow School 57.

Awards

  • Weill Cancer Hub East Grant (2025)
  • Princeton SEAS Faculty Advancement Award (2024)
  • NSF CAREER (2023)
  • Princeton Precision Health Grant (2023)
  • NIH/NIAID DP2 New Innovator Award (2022)
  • Ludwig Princeton Branch Grant (2022)
  • Princeton Biomolecular Condensate Program Grant (2021)
  • Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey New Investigator Award (2021)
  • AACR-Bristol-Myers Squibb Immuno-oncology Research Fellowship (2019)
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering-Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy-Cycle for Survival Fund (2018)
Interests
  • Computational biology
  • Cancer immunology
  • Regulation of gene expression
  • Functional genomics
  • Single-cell and spatial technologies
  • CRISPR genome editing
Education
  • PhD, Computer Science, 2014

    Princeton University

  • Candidate of Sc (PhD), Mathematics, 2009

    Lomonosov Moscow State University

  • Specialist (MSc), Mathematics, 2007

    Lomonosov Moscow State University

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