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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
Developmental Biology Program
Maria Jasin Lab Group
Maria Jasin, PhD
Professor
The Jasin laboratory focuses on double-strand break repair and genomic integrity in mammalian cells and the relationship to tumor suppression.
  • PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cell Biology Program
The Xuejun Jiang Lab
Xuejun Jiang, PhD
Professor
Cell biologist Xuejun Jiang studies programmed cell death, molecular mechanisms, and their roles in tumorigenesis.
  • PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Developmental Biology Program
The Alexandra Joyner Lab
Alexandra Joyner, PhD
Professor
The Joyner laboratory studies the involvement of Hedgehog signaling and transcription factors in cerebellum development, regeneration and cancer.
  • PhD, University of Toronto
Molecular Biology Program
Scott Keeney Lab Group
Scott Keeney, PhD
Professor
Molecular biologist Scott Keeney investigates mechanisms of the initiation of meiotic recombination.
  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Molecular Pharmacology Program
The Alex Kentsis Lab
Alex Kentsis, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Cancer biologist and pediatric oncologist Alex Kentsis leads research in the functional proteomics and molecular pharmacology of refractory childhood cancers.
  • MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  • PhD, New York University
Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories
The Kayvan Keshari Lab
Kayvan R. Keshari, PhD
Professor
Biochemist and Bioengineer Kayvan Keshari explores changes in cancer metabolism to develop advanced imaging techniques and cancer therapeutics.
  • BA, University of California, Berkeley
  • PhD, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Molecular Pharmacology Program
Michael Kharas lab
Michael G. Kharas, PhD
Professor
Cancer biologist Michael Kharas studies RNA regulators of self-renewal in both normal and leukemic hematopoiesis.
  • PhD, University of California Irvine
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
The Christopher Klebanoff Lab
Christopher A. Klebanoff, MD
Associate Professor
Physician-scientist Christopher A. Klebanoff studies T cell immunobiology with an emphasis on adoptive T cell immunotherapy for the treatment of solid malignancies.
  • MD, Emory University School of Medicine
Molecular Biology Program
Andrew Koff, PhD
Professor
Molecular biologist Andrew Koff is interested in identifying the genes and and molecular mechanisms by which cells make decisions regarding their proliferative capacity after they exit from the cell cycle during therapy induced senescence and during normal development.
Molecular Pharmacology Program
Richard Kolesnick Lab Group
Richard N. Kolesnick, MD
Professor
Physician-scientist Richard Kolesnick studies the role of ceramide signaling in radiation-induced vascular dysfunction and tumor regression.
  • MD, University of Chicago School of Medicine