Special Contributing Faculty

Faculty members who do not serve as dissertation mentors but who make contributions to the education of our students by teaching or serving as clinical mentors are appointed as Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Special Contributing Faculty.

The following is a list of current members of the contributing faculty along with their research interests:

Marinela Capanu
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Hierarchical models in genetic association studies, misspecification tests, and survival analysis.

Paul B. Chapman
Immunology
Medicine
Mechanisms by which the immune system recognizes cancer and the development of effective immunotherapy treatments.

Maura N. Dickler
Medicine
Hormonal therapy and anti-angiogenic therapy of breast cancer.

Clifford A. Hudis
Medicine
Translational clinical trials for breast cancer.

Joseph G. Jurcic
Medicine
Acute myeloid leukemia, monoclonal antibodies, and radioimmunotherapy.

John Humm
Medical Physics
Molecular imaging of cancer by PET, hypoxia, and targeted radionuclide therapies, especially with tumor-specific antibodies.

Robert Klein
Cancer Biology & Genetics
Identification of genes responsible for inherited predisposition to cancer.

David S. Klimstra
Pathology
Pathology of pancreatic, hepatobiliary, and gastrointestinal neoplasia.

Mark G. Kris
Medicine|Clinical trials and translational research.

Robert J. Motzer
Medicine
Clinical trials for metastatic renal cell carcinoma and germ cell tumors.

Larry Norton
Medicine
Breast Cancer clinical trials, tumor growth kinetics, and mathematics of metastasis.

Philip B. Paty
Surgery
Biomarkers — diagnostic, prognostic, predictive — for colorectal cancer.

Victor E. Reuter
Pathology
Marker evaluation and validation in urologic cancers.

Leonard Saltz
Medicine
Development of new therapies for colorectal cancer.

Howard I. Scher
Medicine
Mechanism-based drug development for prostate cancer.

Agnes Viale
Genomics Core
Genomics: from microarrays to next generation sequencing.

Nian Wu
Molecular Pharmacology & Chemistry
Analytical pharmacology/toxicology, bioassay, and drug-delivering technology.

Pat Zanzonico
Medical Physics
Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging research: hypoxia imaging, targeted radionuclide therapy, and small-animal imaging.

Andrew D. Zelenetz
Medicine
Clinical and translation research in lymphoma.

Kristen Zakian
Medical Physics
Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy to study cancer.