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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
Cell Biology Program
The Lydia Finley Lab
Lydia Finley, PhD
Associate Professor
Lydia Finley studies the mechanisms that link metabolic pathways to cell fate decisions.
  • PhD, Harvard University
  • BS, Yale University
Molecular Pharmacology Program
The Karuna Ganesh Lab
Karuna Ganesh, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Physician-scientist Karuna Ganesh studies stem cell plasticity in metastasis, therapy resistance and tissue regeneration.
  • MD, PhD, University of Cambridge (UK)
Immunology Program
Frederic Geissmann Lab Group
Frederic Geissmann, MD, PhD
Professor
My research is focused on cellular and molecular mechanisms that control the differentiation, maintenance, and physiological functions of macrophages and monocytes and their roles in tissue homeostasis and disease processes.
  • MD, University of Paris, Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie
  • PhD, University of Paris, Paris V Rene-Descartes
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)
Immunology Program
Michael Glickman Lab
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
Structural Biology Program
COPII protein machinery model
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
Associate 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
Molecular Pharmacology Program
The Jan Grimm Lab
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)
Developmental Biology Program
The Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis Lab
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, PhD
Professor
The Hadjantonakis laboratory studies pluripotency, cell lineage commitment, tissue patterning, and morphogenesis in mammalian embryos and in stem cell and organoid models.
  • PhD, Imperial College (London)
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
The Alan Hanash Lab
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