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Gianluca Pegoraro, PhD
Gianluca Pegoraro, PhD

gianluca.pegoraro@nih.gov Facility Head 240-760-6696 Bldg. 41, Room B909
Dr. Pegoraro received his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the International School of Superior Studies in Trieste, Italy in 2004. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute, he worked from 2011 until 2013 as a Research Scientist at USAMRIID in Frederick, MD, where he developed high-throughput imaging assays to screen libraries of compounds against emerging bacterial and infectious diseases. Dr. Pegoraro joined HiTIF in 2014. His specialties include high-throughput imaging assay development, functional genomics screening, and data analysis.

Isabel Quintanilla-Leo, PhD
Isabel Quintanilla-Leo, PhD

isabel.quintanilla@nih.gov Staff Scientist 240-760-6102 Bldg. 41, Room B911
Dr Quintanilla-Leo obtained her Ph.D. in Medical Science from the University of Barcelona, Spain in 2017. Her background is in translational cancer research, and she has experience in molecular biology and several optical microscopy techniques, including FISH and spatial transcriptomics. Dr. Quintanilla-Leo joined the CCR High-Throughput Imaging Facility in October 2021.

Adib Keikhosravi, PhD
Adib Keikhosravi, PhD

adib.keikhosravi@nih.gov Staff Scientist 240-760-6451 Bldg. 41, Room B620
Dr. Keikhosravi received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering/ Bio photonics with a minor in electrical engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has experience in developing optical microscopy techniques and applying image/signal processing as Machine/Deep learning algorithms to understand sub-cellular dynamics of genomic and transcriptomic organization cells and tissue from high-throughput microscopy data.

Laurent Ozbun, PhD
Laurent Ozbun, PhD

lo30f@nih.gov Laboratory Biologist 240-760-6688 Bldg. 41, Room B911
Dr. Laurent Ozbun received his Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Immunology from The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA in 1997. He has experience in molecular and cellular biology, and with automated liquid handling systems and techniques. Dr. Ozbun joined HiTIF in May 2012.

Md Abdul Kader Sagar , PhD
Md Abdul Kader Sagar , PhD

mdabdulkadar.sagar@nih.gov Staff Scientist 240-760-6112 Bldg. 41, Room B620
Dr. Sagar received his postdoctoral training at NIBIB, focusing on the development of spectral imaging techniques using photo-switchable proteins. He earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019, where he conducted research on optical and computational methods to enhance fluorescence imaging for studying cellular microenvironments. Prior to that, he worked as a senior software engineer at Samsung R&D from 2011 to 2013, specializing in the development of on-chip image processing software. In 2023, Dr. Sagar joined NCI as a Staff Scientist. His areas of expertise encompass high throughput image processing, confocal/multiphoton microscopy, and machine learning.

Gil Kanfer , PhD
Gil Kanfer , PhD

gil.kanfer@nih.gov Staff Scientist 240-857-7460 Bldg. 41, Room B911
Dr. Gil Kanfer is a data scientist specializing in machine learning, computer vision, and genetic perturbation data analysis. In 2016, he earned his PhD in Biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. From 2016 to 2024, Dr, Kanfer was a Post-doctoral fellow at NINDS (2016-2024), where he developed a novel pooled screening platform that integrates machine learning algorithms with automated high-speed imaging systems for functional genomic discoveries. Since joining HiTIF in 2024 as a Staff Scientist, Dr. Kanfer develops and applies spatial omics tools that bridge cutting-edge open source analysis frameworks with custom developed spatial statistics algorithms.