Andrew Butler PhD

Andrew Butler is a Postdoctoral Fellow, at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterAndrew Butler. He is a Ph.D. student at New York University and a member of Rahul Satija’s lab at the New York Genome Center and New York University and has received the 2020 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. This prestigious honor, which is sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences.

Andrew’s research has focused on developing novel computational tools for the analysis of single-cell sequencing datasets. In particular, he has designed a set of algorithms to integrate multiple datasets together by matching or ‘aligning’ groups of cells that are similar across different experiments. These methods have been published in Nature Biotechnology and Cell, and allow researchers to understand how groups of cells change through experimental conditions, disease states, and evolution. In addition, Andrew is a lead developer of the Satija Lab’s Seurat package. He has made all of his methods freely available as open-source software, which has enabled his integrative tools to be widely used in the community.