Dr. Samira Asgari, is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Institute for Genomic Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She earned her M.Sc. in Stem Cell Biology from the University of Tehran, a Ph.D. in Human Genomics of Infectious Diseases from the Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), and completed postdoctoral training in statistical genomics at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Asgari leads a multidisciplinary research group focused on understanding how genetic, demographic, and environmental diversity shapes immune system function and disease outcomes. Her lab integrates electronic health records, multi-omics data, in silico modeling, statistical inference, and machine learning to uncover mechanisms driving variation in infectious and immune-mediated disease risks and outcomes.