Vito Quaranta

Vito Quaranta, MD, is a systems biologist, professor of the practice and strategic advisor to the Provost at Northeastern University, where he is also affiliated with the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences.

Before joining Northeastern, he was on the faculty at The Scripps Research Institute and then at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the Basic Science department. There, he was a professor of pharmacology and biochemistry, director of the Quantitative Systems Biology Center and principal investigator for the National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Systems Biology. Quaranta has authored more than 300 highly cited scientific articles and several chapters in medical books. He has trained nearly 50 PhD or MSTP students and postdoctoral fellows.

Quaranta has gained international recognition for his contributions to cancer systems biology. He has been an invited lecturer at numerous congresses and conferences, held workshops on the topic at national and international scientific meetings, and co-chaired the NCI’s Cancer Systems Biology Consortium twice.

He also is involved in the biotechnology space and recently co-founded a startup company, Duet BioSystems, which uses AI-driven technology to optimize combination drug synergy.