Yair Benita's Biography

Yair Benita, Senior Computational Biologist, Merck Research Laboratories

Yair has a B.Sc. in pharmacology and a PhD in Bioinformatics. He is an expert in high-throughput data analysis ranging from RNA screens to microarrays, drug response data and next generation sequencing. At Merck, Yair supports the oncology franchise and applies his expertise to identify synergistic drug combinations and define biomarkers of drug response.