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
The Lydia Finley Lab
Cell Biology Program
Lydia Finley, PhD
Associate Professor
Lydia Finley studies the mechanisms that link metabolic pathways to cell fate decisions.
  • PhD, Harvard University
  • BS, Yale University
The Karuna Ganesh Lab
Molecular Pharmacology Program
Karuna Ganesh, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Physician-scientist Karuna Ganesh studies stem cell plasticity in metastasis, therapy resistance and tissue regeneration.
  • MD, PhD, University of Cambridge (UK)
Immunology Program
Alexander Gitlin, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Gitlin Lab studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying inflammatory cell signaling in health and disease.
  • MD, Weill Cornell Medicine, Medicine (2017)
  • PhD, The Rockefeller University, Immunology (2016)
Cell Biology Program
Christina Gladkova, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Gladkova lab studies the mechanisms and signals that reshape cellular organelle architecture in response to physiological stimuli.
  • Postdoctoral training, UCSF & HHMI Janelia Research Campus (2025)
  • PhD, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (2019)
Michael Glickman Lab
Immunology Program
Michael S. Glickman, MD
Professor
Physician-scientist Michael Glickman investigates the physiology and pathogenic mechanisms of mycobacteria, including the use of mycobacteria as bacterial cancer therapies.
  • MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
COPII protein machinery model
Structural Biology Program
Jonathan Goldberg, PhD
Professor
The Goldberg laboratory focuses on structural and biochemical characterization of intracellular vesicle transport.
  • PhD, Imperial College (London)
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Benjamin Greenbaum, PhD
Professor
The Greenbaum lab utilizes techniques from statistical physics, information theory, and evolutionary biology to better understand the role of self/non-self discrimination in tumor evolution, model response to immunotherapies, and quantify drivers of virus and cancer evolution.
  • PhD in theoretical physics, Columbia University
The Jan Grimm Lab
Molecular Pharmacology Program
Jan Grimm, MD, PhD
Professor
Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine physician Jan Grimm develops novel approaches for improved diagnosis, monitoring and therapy of prostate and other cancers.
  • MD, University of Hamburg (Germany)
  • PhD, University of Kiel (Germany)
The Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis Lab
Developmental Biology Program
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, PhD
Professor
The Hadjantonakis laboratory studies pluripotency and cell fate specification, tissue patterning and morphogenesis, in mammalian embryos and stem cell-derived embryo models.
  • PhD, Imperial College (London)
The Alan Hanash Lab
Immuno-Oncology Program
Alan M. Hanash, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Physician-scientist Alan Hanash studies transplant immunology and immune-mediated mechanisms of tissue damage and regeneration.
  • MD, University of Miami