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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140 Faculty Members found
Cell Biology Program
Tobias Walther, PhD
Professor
The Farese & Walther lab studies the biology and pathology of cellular lipid metabolism, focusing on lipid/energy storage in lipid droplets and sphingolipid metabolism in lysosomes.
  • PhD, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
Pictured: Wendel Lab
Hans-Guido Wendel, MD
Professor
Cancer biologist Hans-Guido Wendel pursues both disease-centered and basic discovery research. The disease focus is on lymphocyte malignancies and the basic science arm of the lab explores fundamental mechanisms that control aberrant mRNA translation programs in cancer. Work in these two research areas frequently intersects in surprising ways.
  • Medical School of the Technical University of Aachen, Germany
  • Medical School of the University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Residency in Internal Medicine, University of Aachen, Germany
  • Postdoctoral Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Molecular Biology Program
The Iestyn Whitehouse Lab
Iestyn Whitehouse, PhD
Professor
Molecular biologist Iestyn Whitehouse investigates chromatin structure and the function of ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling enzymes.
  • PhD, The University of Dundee
Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories
Adam Widman, MD
Assistant Professor
The Widman Lab within the Digital Oncology Program at MSKCC is using machine learning and genomics to engineer the next-generation of ultrasensitive, highly scalable liquid biopsies for early cancer detection, treatment monitoring, and detection of minimal residual disease (MRD) after surgery for early-stage cancer.
  • MD, Weill Cornell Medical College
Structural Biology Program
Max Wilkinson, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Wilkinson laboratory studies reverse transcriptases and retrotransposons using biochemistry, structural biology, and genome mining.
  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, University of Otago (2015)
  • PhD, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (2019)
  • Postdoc, Broad Institute / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2025)
Computational & Systems Biology Program
The Joao Xavier Lab
Joao Xavier, PhD
Professor
Systems biologist Joao Xavier combines experimental and computational approaches to study diverse problems relevant to cancer: how the microbiome influences cancer and cancer treatment, how cancer cells metastasize, and how metabolic fluxes command the behavior of living cells.
  • PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories
Rona Yaeger, MD
Professor
My laboratory and clinical research focus on understanding genomics and signaling in colorectal cancer to develop new treatments for patients.
  • MD, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Molecular Pharmacology Program
Xinbo Yang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Xinbo Yang’s lab applies structural biology and protein engineering to decode T cell receptor specificity in cancer and autoimmune disease.
  • PhD, University of Maryland College Park
Developmental Biology Program
Jennifer A. Zallen, PhD
Professor
The Zallen laboratory focuses on the generation of tissue structure through the collective action of cell populations.
  • PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Molecular Biology Program
Xiaolan Zhao Lab
Xiaolan Zhao, PhD
Professor
Molecular biologist Xiaolan Zhao studies chromosomal organization, genome integrity, DNA replication and repair, dynamic protein modification.
  • PhD, Columbia University