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Philipp Niethammer
Philipp Niethammer, PhD


Professor

Interdisciplinary approaches to wound healing, inflammation and regeneration.

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The Niethammer Lab

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Postdoctoral researcher Yanan Ma, PhD
Go Fish: Why MSK Researchers Use Zebrafish To Study a Cancer-Linked Inflammation Pathway

A study led by postdoctoral researcher Yanan Ma from the lab of cell biologist Philipp Niethammer shows why diversity also matters in model animal research.
Finding
A doctor examines a mole.
Don't Scratch That Mole? Scientists Are Learning More about Inflammation and Cancer

It's not only what's inside your cells that determines your cancer risk. It's what surrounds them too.

Publications

Katikaneni A, Jelcic M, Gerlach GF, Ma Y, Overholtzer M, Niethammer P. Lipid peroxidation regulates long-range wound detection through 5-lipoxygenase in zebrafish. Nat Cell Biol. 2020 Sep;22(9):1049–1055. PMID: 32868902

Riegman M, Sagie L, Galed C, Levin T, Steinberg N, Dixon SJ, Wiesner U, Bradbury MS, Niethammer P, Zaritsky A, Overholtzer M. Ferroptosis occurs through an osmotic mechanism and propagates independently of cell rupture. Nat Cell Biol. 2020 Aug 31; PMID: 32868903

Jelcic M, Wang K, Hui KL, Cai X-C, Enyedi B, Luo M, Niethammer P. A Photo-clickable ATP-Mimetic Reveals Nucleotide Interactors in the Membrane Proteome. Cell Chem Biol. 2020 Aug 20;27(8):1073–1083.e12. PMID: 32521230

Stoddard M, Huang C, Enyedi B, Niethammer P. Live imaging of leukocyte recruitment in a zebrafish model of chemical liver injury. Sci Rep. 2019 Jan 10;9(1):28. PMCID: PMC6328554

Jelcic M, Enyedi B, Niethammer P. Quantitative imaging of endogenous and exogenous H2O2 gradients in live zebrafish larvae. Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1982:283–299. PMID: 31172479

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People

Philipp Niethammer

Philipp Niethammer, PhD



Professor

  • Cell biologist Philipp Niethammer investigates tissue damage responses with advanced imaging approaches in zebrafish.
  • PhD, European Molecular Biology Laboratories & Hamburg University, Germany
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Email Address
212-639-5332
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Members

Philipp Niethammer
Philipp Niethammer

Principal Investigator

Michelle Bello Veramendi
Michelle Bello Veramendi

Research Technician

Zaza Gelashvili
Zaza Gelashvili

Graduate Student

Yanan Ma
Yanan Ma

Research Scholar

Zhouyang Shen
Zhouyang Shen

Graduate Student

Miklos Lengyel
Miklos Lengyel
Lab Alumni
Gary Gerlach II
Gary Gerlach II

Postdoctoral Fellow

Danielle Bolton
Danielle Bolton

Research Technician

Cong Huang
Cong Huang

BCMB Graduate Student

King Lam Hui
King Lam Hui

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mark J. Jelcic
Mark J. Jelcic

Scientist at Fate Therapeutics Inc, San Diego, CA

Anushka Katikaneni
Anushka Katikaneni

PhD Candidate at Duke University

Balázs Enyedi, MD, PhD
Balázs Enyedi

Postdoctoral Fellow

William Gault, PhD
William Gault

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kadeem P. Ho Sang
Kadeem P. Ho Sang

Administrative Research Assistant

Ellyn Obrochta
Ellyn Obrochta

Research Technician

Michelina Stoddard
Michelina Stoddard

MD-PhD graduate student

Lab Affiliations

Achievements

  • Dorsett L. Spurgeon Distinguished Research Award (2009)
  • Louis Gerstner Young Investigator (2012)
  • American Asthma Foundation Scholar (2014)
  • Louise and Allston Boyer Young Investigator Award (2018)

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Disclosures

Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.

MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.

Philipp Niethammer discloses the following relationships and financial interests:

  • American Association for Anatomy
    Provision of Services (uncompensated)
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
    Provision of Services (uncompensated)
  • National University of Singapore
    Provision of Services (uncompensated)
  • University of Virginia
    Provision of Services

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