Dr Hassane received his BS in 1995 at the University of Rochester. In 2002, he received his PhD in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at the University of Kentucky, subsequently returning to the University of Rochester where he trained as postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr Craig Jordan, focusing on leukemia stem cell targeting. Currently, at Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr Hassane’s laboratory focuses on the use of chemical genomic strategies to accelerate the translation of pre-clinical discoveries to clinic through development of novel treatment modalities and therapeutic combinations.