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Nicolas Robine

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Senior Director, Computational Biology at New York Genome Center
📍 New York, New York, United States

As Senior Director of Computational Biology at the New York Genome Center, Nicolas Robine leads a 20-person team focused on germline, cancer, and functional genomics. With a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University, he has over two decades of experience developing analytical pipelines for high-throughput sequencing data.

His recent work involves significant international collaboration, including travel to Nigeria and Ghana for the Cancer Grand Challenges SAMBAI project. He is an advocate for diversifying genomic databases and building more generalizable AI models, and has spoken on these topics at events hosted by the French consulate.

Unique fact: Early in his career, he implemented a technique from a 2000 paper by scientist Bing Ren, whom he now works alongside at the NYGC.

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Experience
22 Years
Current Role
Senior Director, Computational Biology
Job Level
Senior
Location
New York, New York, United States
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Cancer Genomics
He leads a team focused on cancer genomics and has contributed to multiple publications on cohort-level analysis of different cancer types, including lung and urothelial cancers.
Genomic Diversity
Actively involved in the Polyethnic-1000 and Cancer Grand Challenges SAMBAI projects, which focus on diversifying genomic databases and studying cancer in populations with African ancestry.
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Senior Director, Computational Biology
New York Genome Center
4-2012 - 8-2025
Scientist, Manager, Director, Computational Biology
New York Genome Center
9-2011 - 4-2012
Research Associate
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
9-2008 - 10-2011
Postdoc in Computational and Developmental Biology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
5-2004 - 9-2008
PhD candidate in Computational Biology
Institut Curie, Paris - France
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Media appearances

Lecture 2: Dr. Nicolas Robine (New York Genome Center). Featured in YouTube
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NYGC Researchers Part of Global Cancer Grand Challenges Team Aiming to Address Cancer Inequities in the African Diaspora. Featured in New York Genome Center News
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Education
2004 - 2008
PhD
Pierre and Marie Curie University
8-2002 - 12-2003
MSc
Chalmers University of Technology
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