Nikolaus Schultz MS, PhD

Nikolaus Schultz, PhD is an Associate Attending Computational Oncologist in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and an Affiliate Member of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program. Dr. Schultz also serves as Head of Knowledge Systems in the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology, where he leads the development of the cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics, a web-based resource for the analysis of complex cancer genomics data, and of OncoKB, a precision oncology knowledge base. Dr. Schultz was originally trained as a biochemist and molecular biologist, but has, since his post-doc in the Computational Biology Department at MSK, transitioned towards bioinformatics and computational biology.