Faculty

The Gerstner Sloan Kettering faculty brings together outstanding scientists and engineers working at the forefront of biomedical research and cancer engineering. Browse our list of Faculty and learn more about each faculty member’s area of investigation.

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.

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139 Faculty Members found
Immuno-Oncology Program
Chrysothemis Brown, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Brown Lab studies how the tissue environment shapes immune cell fate and function during early life immune development, inflammation, and cancer.
  • MA, University of Oxford
  • MD, Royal Free and University College London
  • PhD, King’s College London
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Jian Carrot-Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Jian Carrot-Zhang, PhD, is an Assistant Member in the Computational Oncology Service at MSK. Her research focuses on elucidating germline–somatic interactions across multi-ancestral populations.
  • Postdoc: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute
  • PhD, McGill University
  • Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Joe Chan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
  • MD, PhD, Columbia University Physicians & Surgeons
Chandarlapaty Lab
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Sarat Chandarlapaty, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Cell and Developmental Biology Program
Physician-scientist Sarat Chandarlapaty studies the regulation of growth factor signaling networks in cancer.
  • PhD, University of North Carolina
The Jayanta Chaudhuri Lab
Immunology Program
Jayanta Chaudhuri, PhD
Professor
Immunologist Jayanta Chaudhuri studies the mechanisms of immunoglobulin gene diversification.
  • PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Chen Lab
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Yu Chen, MD, PhD
Professor
Physician-scientist Yu Chen studies the role of transcription factors that are critical for prostate cancer development.
  • MD, Weill Cornell Medical College
  • PhD, The Rockefeller University
The Cheng Lab
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Emily H. Cheng, MD, PhD
Professor
Physician-scientist Emily Cheng studies the molecular mechanisms of cell death and their implications in tumorigenesis, tumor-microenvironment interactions, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy.
  • MD, Taipei Medical University
  • PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Nai-Kong Cheung Lab Group
Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories
Nai-Kong V. Cheung, MD, PhD
Professor
Physician-scientist Nai-Kong Cheung focuses on engineering antibodies and immune cells to treat both solid tumors and liquid tumors in children.
  • MD, PhD (Immunology), Harvard Medical School
Chi Lab
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Ping Chi, MD, PhD
Professor
Physician-scientist Ping Chi studies genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of transcriptional regulation by oncogenic factors in GIST, MPNST, melanoma and other solid tumors.
  • MD, Weill Cornell Medical College
  • PhD, The Rockefeller University
Pictured: Chiosis Lab
Chemical Biology Program
Gabriela Chiosis, PhD
Professor
The Chiosis lab uses a unique chemical biology approach to understand, diagnose, and treat cellular processes associated with chronic molecular stress, with the ultimate goal of developing novel therapeutic options for use in the clinic.
  • PhD, Columbia University