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 Dana Pe'er Lab
Computational & Systems Biology Program
Dana Pe'er, PhD
Professor
Computational biologist Dana Pe’er combines single-cell and spatial profiling technologies with machine learning approaches to address fundamental questions in gene regulation, cellular plasticity and cell-cell communication in the contexts of cancer, immunity and development.
  • PhD, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Israel
Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories
Jonathan Peled, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Peled lab focuses on cancer immunotherapy.
  • MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories
Karlo Perica, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Physician-scientist Karlo Perica develops cell therapies to treat a wide variety of cancers, focusing on off-the-shelf approaches such as allogeneic CAR T cells and in vivo gene editing.
Immunology Program
Justin Perry, PhD
Assistant Professor
Immunologist Justin Perry investigates homeostatic apoptotic cell clearance and how this process is exploited during cancer development and progression.
  • PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
The Alexandros Pertsinidis Lab
Structural Biology Program
Alexandros Pertsinidis, PhD
Professor
The Pertsinidis laboratory uses single-molecule approaches to understand gene transcription and the function of complex macromolecular machines inside live cells.
  • PhD, Brown University
The John Petrini Lab
Molecular Biology Program
John Petrini, PhD
Professor
Molecular biologist John Petrini investigates the repair of chromosomal breaks and the activation of the DNA-damage-induced cell-cycle checkpoints.
  • PhD, University of Michigan Medical School
The Simon Powell Lab
Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories
Simon N. Powell, MD, PhD
Professor
Molecular biologist Simon Powell investigates DNA replication and recombination, chromosome dynamics, and human genetics.
  • PhD, MD, University of London
The Dirk Remus Lab
Molecular Biology Program
Dirk Remus, PhD
Professor
Molecular biologist Dirk Remus investigates mechanisms of DNA replication in eukaryotic cells.
  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Ed Reznik, PhD
Associate Professor
The Reznik Lab studies metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction in cancer through analysis of multimodal genetic, metabolomic, and clinical data.
  • PhD, Boston University
Immuno-Oncology Program
Gabrielle Rizzuto, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Gabrielle Rizzuto lab investigates a long-standing question in immunology: what prevents maternal immune rejection of the placenta and fetus?
  • MD, Weill Cornell Medical College
  • PhD, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences