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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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136 Faculty Members found
Chemical Biology Program
Tan Group 2019
Derek Tan, PhD
Professor
Derek Tan’s lab studies diversity-oriented synthesis and rational drug design of probes and lead compounds for chemical biology and drug discovery.
  • BS, Stanford University
  • PhD, Harvard University
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Wesley Tansey, PhD
Assistant Attending
The Tansey lab focuses on solving frontier problems in cancer data science through the development of innovative statistical machine learning methods.
  • PhD in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
The Craig Thompson Lab
Craig B. Thompson, MD
Professor
Craig Thompson studies molecular signaling pathways that regulate nutrient uptake and the role these pathways play in the regulation of cell growth and survival.
  • MD, University of Pennsylvania
Cell Biology Program
The Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou Lab
Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou, PhD
Professor
Cell biologist Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou studies cell cycle control of centrosome duplication and degeneration, as well as cilia assembly and disassembly.
  • PhD, University of California, Davis
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Asmin Tulpule, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Tulpule lab studies how cells compartmentalize critical cellular processes with a focus on biomolecular condensates in cancer.
  • MD, Harvard Medical School
  • PhD, Harvard University
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Santosha Vardhana, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Vardhana Lab studies how nutrient availability, uptake and metabolism regulates host immune responses during cancer development and immunotherapy.
  • PhD, New York University
Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
The Andrea Ventura Lab
Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD
Professor
Cancer biologist Andrea Ventura studies non-coding RNAs in cancer and development
  • MD, Catholic University of Rome (Italy)
  • PhD, European Institute of Oncology (Milan Italy), Open University (London, UK)
  • Postdoctoral, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Developmental Biology Program
The Thomas Vierbuchen Lab
Thomas S. Vierbuchen, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Vierbuchen laboratory directs the differentiation of mouse and human pluripotent stem cells to characterize fundamental mechanisms of neuronal cell fate specification and function.
  • PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine
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