Yossef grew up in Staten Island, New York before moving to Baltimore to attend Johns Hopkins University. There he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry and conducted research in the Sfanos lab looking at the effect of the inflammatory microenvironment on TMPRSS2-ERG fusions in prostate cancer. After graduating in 2019 he joined the Neal Lab at the Broad Institute as a research associate using CRISPR base editor- and ORF-based screening approaches to study genetic variants in cancer. Now as a PhD student in the Beroukhim Lab, Yossef is interested in studying structural variants in brain cancers that can be useful therapeutic targets. When he’s not looking (and failing) to find good bagels or pizza in Boston, Yossef likes to play soccer and basketball, listen to modern rap and R&B music, and watch a Sci-Fi movie or TV show.

Fun fact: From growing up in New York to living in Boston now, Yossef’s team loyalties are very contradictory since he roots for the New York Yankees and the Boston Celtics.