Raphael Kfury Rubens is an MD-PhD student with a background in medicine and computational biology. He studied medicine at LMU Munich and worked in cancer immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He later pursued a degree in Computational Biology at the University of Cambridge, where he completed his Master’s thesis in computational oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute. Currently, Raphael’s research focuses on harnessing the power of single-cell atlases. He is leading efforts within the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium and collaborating with multiple labs in the HCA lung bionetwork to develop the second generation of the Human Lung Cell Atlas.