Simon Knott PhD

Simon received his PhD from the Department of Molecular and Computational Biology at the University of Southern California, with Dr. Oscar Aparicio and Dr. Simon Tavare acting as his mentors. Subsequently, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Gregory Hannon at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In the Hannon lab, he developed computational and molecular tools to study gene function in mammalian cells. In addition, he applied these tools to identify novel drivers of breast cancer progression. Now, as the Principal Investigator of the Knott lab, Simon leads the our team. He is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars Sinai Medical Institute and he also serves as the Assosicate-Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics.