Ignaty Leshchiner, PhD
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
Computational Biomedicine




Dr. Leshchiner is interested in applying new genomic technologies such as blood biopsy, long-range read phasing, and single cell sequencing for analysis and understanding of biology behind tumor development, treatment evasion, and progression to metastasis. His background is in developing statistical methods for analysis of genomics data and application of these methods to understanding biology and finding treatment for various disease conditions.

Prior to joining Boston University, Dr. Leshchiner served as the associate director of the Computation Biology and Cancer Resistance Department of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He remains a member of the institute's affiliated faculty. Leshchiner also worked for Partners Healthcare as a bioinformatician in the genetics division of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he contributed to the CLARITY Challenge-winning team in 2012. He has previous consulting experience for Hybrid Silica Technologies and prior research fellowships at UMass Lowell and Moscow State University.

Dr. Leshchiner obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from Moscow State University, which included a visiting scientist appointment in the Langer Lab at MIT. He completed postdoctoral training in bioinformatics and computational biology at Harvard Medical School.

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  1. Varkaris A, Fece de la Cruz F, Martin EE, Norden BL, Chevalier N, Kehlmann AM, Leshchiner I, Barnes H, Ehnstrom S, Stavridi AM, Yuan X, Kim JS, Ellis H, Papatheodoridi A, Gunaydin H, Danysh BP, Parida L, Sanidas I, Ji Y, Lau K, Wulf GM, Bardia A, Spring LM, Isakoff SJ, Lennerz JK, Del Vecchio K, Pierce L, Pazolli E, Getz G, Corcoran RB, Juric D. Allosteric PI3Ka Inhibition Overcomes On-target Resistance to Orthosteric Inhibitors Mediated by Secondary PIK3CA Mutations. Cancer Discov. 2024 Feb 08; 14(2):227-239. PMID: 37916958; PMCID: PMC10850944; DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-23-0704;
     
  2. Burr R, Leshchiner I, Costantino CL, Blohmer M, Sundaresan T, Cha J, Seeger K, Guay S, Danysh BP, Gore I, Jacobs RA, Slowik K, Utro F, Rhrissorrakrai K, Levovitz C, Barth JL, Dubash T, Chirn B, Parida L, Sequist LV, Lennerz JK, Mino-Kenudson M, Maheswaran S, Naxerova K, Getz G, Haber DA. Germline mutations and developmental mosaicism underlying EGFR-mutant lung cancer. medRxiv. 2023 Sep 29. PMID: 37808694; PMCID: PMC10557804; DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.28.23296274;
     
  3. Khalsa JK, Cha J, Utro F, Naeem A, Murali I, Kuang Y, Vasquez K, Li L, Tyekucheva S, Fernandes SM, Veronese L, Guieze R, Sasi BK, Wang Z, Machado JH, Bai H, Alasfour M, Rhrissorrakrai K, Levovitz C, Danysh BP, Slowik K, Jacobs RA, Davids MS, Paweletz CP, Leshchiner I, Parida L, Getz G, Brown JR. Genetic events associated with venetoclax resistance in CLL identified by whole-exome sequencing of patient samples. Blood. 2023 Aug 03; 142(5):421-433. PMID: 37146250; PMCID: PMC10447490; DOI: 10.1182/blood.2022016600;
     
  4. Naeem A, Utro F, Wang Q, Cha J, Vihinen M, Martindale S, Zhou Y, Ren Y, Tyekucheva S, Kim AS, Fernandes SM, Saksena G, Rhrissorrakrai K, Levovitz C, Danysh BP, Slowik K, Jacobs RA, Davids MS, Lederer JA, Zain R, Smith CIE, Leshchiner I, Parida L, Getz G, Brown JR. Pirtobrutinib targets BTK C481S in ibrutinib-resistant CLL but second-site BTK mutations lead to resistance. Blood Adv. 2023 May 09; 7(9):1929-1943. PMID: 36287227; PMCID: PMC10202739; DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2022008447;
     
  5. Leshchiner I, Mroz EA, Cha J, Rosebrock D, Spiro O, Bonilla-Velez J, Faquin WC, Lefranc-Torres A, Lin DT, Michaud WA, Getz G, Rocco JW. Inferring early genetic progression in cancers with unobtainable premalignant disease. Nat Cancer. 2023 Apr; 4(4):550-563. PMID: 37081260; PMCID: PMC10132986; DOI: 10.1038/s43018-023-00533-y;
     
  6. Ravi A, Hellmann MD, Arniella MB, Holton M, Freeman SS, Naranbhai V, Stewart C, Leshchiner I, Kim J, Akiyama Y, Griffin AT, Vokes NI, Sakhi M, Kamesan V, Rizvi H, Ricciuti B, Forde PM, Anagnostou V, Riess JW, Gibbons DL, Pennell NA, Velcheti V, Digumarthy SR, Mino-Kenudson M, Califano A, Heymach JV, Herbst RS, Brahmer JR, Schalper KA, Velculescu VE, Henick BS, Rizvi N, Jänne PA, Awad MM, Chow A, Greenbaum BD, Luksza M, Shaw AT, Wolchok J, Hacohen N, Getz G, Gainor JF. Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of checkpoint blockade response in advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Nat Genet. 2023 May; 55(5):807-819. PMID: 37024582; PMCID: PMC10181943; DOI: 10.1038/s41588-023-01355-5;
     
  7. Parry EM, Leshchiner I, Guièze R, Johnson C, Tausch E, Parikh SA, Lemvigh C, Broséus J, Hergalant S, Messer C, Utro F, Levovitz C, Rhrissorrakrai K, Li L, Rosebrock D, Yin S, Deng S, Slowik K, Jacobs R, Huang T, Li S, Fell G, Redd R, Lin Z, Knisbacher BA, Livitz D, Schneider C, Ruthen N, Elagina L, Taylor-Weiner A, Persaud B, Martinez A, Fernandes SM, Purroy N, Anandappa AJ, Ma J, Hess J, Rassenti LZ, Kipps TJ, Jain N, Wierda W, Cymbalista F, Feugier P, Kay NE, Livak KJ, Danysh BP, Stewart C, Neuberg D, Davids MS, Brown JR, Parida L, Stilgenbauer S, Getz G, Wu CJ. Evolutionary history of transformation from chronic lymphocytic leukemia to Richter syndrome. Nat Med. 2023 Jan; 29(1):158-169. PMID: 36624313; PMCID: PMC10155825; DOI: 10.1038/s41591-022-02113-6;
     
  8. Tsuji J, Li T, Grinshpun A, Coorens T, Russo D, Anderson L, Rees R, Nardone A, Patterson C, Lennon NJ, Cibulskis C, Leshchiner I, Tayob N, Tolaney SM, Tung N, McDonnell DP, Krop IE, Winer EP, Stewart C, Getz G, Jeselsohn R. Clinical Efficacy and Whole-Exome Sequencing of Liquid Biopsies in a Phase IB/II Study of Bazedoxifene and Palbociclib in Advanced Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 Dec 01; 28(23):5066-5078. PMID: 36215125; PMCID: PMC9722539; DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-22-2305;
     
  9. Drummond BE, Chambers BE, Wesselman HM, Gibson S, Arceri L, Ulrich MN, Gerlach GF, Kroeger PT, Leshchiner I, Goessling W, Wingert RA. osr1 Maintains Renal Progenitors and Regulates Podocyte Development by Promoting wnt2ba via the Antagonism of hand2. Biomedicines. 2022 Nov 09; 10(11). PMID: 36359386; PMCID: PMC9687957; DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10112868;
     
  10. Freeman SS, Sade-Feldman M, Kim J, Stewart C, Gonye ALK, Ravi A, Arniella MB, Gushterova I, LaSalle TJ, Blaum EM, Yizhak K, Frederick DT, Sharova T, Leshchiner I, Elagina L, Spiro OG, Livitz D, Rosebrock D, Aguet F, Carrot-Zhang J, Ha G, Lin Z, Chen JH, Barzily-Rokni M, Hammond MR, Vitzthum von Eckstaedt HC, Blackmon SM, Jiao YJ, Gabriel S, Lawrence DP, Duncan LM, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Wargo JA, Flaherty KT, Sullivan RJ, Boland GM, Meyerson M, Getz G, Hacohen N. Combined tumor and immune signals from genomes or transcriptomes predict outcomes of checkpoint inhibition in melanoma. Cell Rep Med. 2022 02 15; 3(2):100500. PMID: 35243413; PMCID: PMC8861826; DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2021.100500;
     
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Computational Biology
Cancer Bioinformatics
Cancer Genetics
Heterogeneity
single cell
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