Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology Faculty & Research Areas
Our faculty are renowned researchers and dedicated educators.
Faculty in NYU Langone’s Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology are renowned researchers and dedicated educators. Our faculty members include National Academy of Sciences members and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators.
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Iannis Aifantis, PhD
Hermann M. Biggs Professor of Pathology, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
cancer, immunology, stem cell biology, epigenetic regulation , leukemia, tumor microenvironment
Karim-Jean Armache, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyResearch Keywords
biophysics, cancer, developmental genetics, genome integrity, metabolism, stem cell biology
Erika Bach, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyResearch Keywords
cancer, developmental genetics, metabolism, pharmacology, stem cell biology, JAK/STAT signaling, stem cell self renewal, development
Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyResearch Keywords
oncogene function in pancreatic cancer, signal transduction, ras function, inflammation, ras signaling
Claudio Basilico, MD
Research Professor, Department of MicrobiologyResearch Keywords
signals controlling cell proliferation
Kenneth Birnbaum, PhD
Associate Professor of BiologyResearch Keywords
developmental genetics, genome integrity, stem cell biology
Jef D. Boeke, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyResearch Keywords
cancer, computational biology, genome integrity, genomics, microbiology, pharmacology, stem cell biology, systems biology, yeast, retrotransposon
Steven J. Burden, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
cancer, developmental genetics, genome integrity, pharmacology, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology
Arthur L. Caplan, PhD
Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, Department of Population HealthResearch Keywords
Ethics, Bioethics, Research ethics, transplantation, health reform
William L. Carroll, MD
Julie and Edward J. Minskoff Professor of Pediatrics, Department of PediatricsResearch Keywords
cancer, pharmacology, childhood cancers, acute leukemia, apoptotic pathways in cancer cells, genomic and epigenomic analysis of childhood cancer, relapsed/resistant leukemia
Daniel J. Ceradini, MD
Assistant Professor, Hansjorg Wyss Department of Plastic SurgeryResearch Keywords
metabolism, stem cell biology
Pamela Cowin, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell BiologyResearch Keywords
cell adhesion and Wnt signaling, developmental genetics, genome integrity, stem cell biology
Jeremy S. Dasen, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
developmental genetics, genome integrity, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology
Gregory David, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyResearch Keywords
chromatin modifications in development and oncogenesis, cancer, genome integrity, pharmacology, stem cell biology
Claude Desplan, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyBrian D. Dynlacht, PhD
Professor, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
cancer, genome integrity, genomics, stem cell biology, systems biology
David Fenyo, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyResearch Keywords
biostatistics, cancer, computational biology, genomics, imaging, pharmacology, proteomics, systems biology
Glenn I. Fishman
William Goldring Professor of Medicine, Department of MedicineResearch Keywords
cardiovascular biology, cardiovascular development, cardiovascular genetics, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, immunology, metabolism
Robert C. Froemke, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck SurgeryResearch Keywords
metabolism, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Eva M. Hernando-Monge, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
cancer, genomics, stem cell biology
Liam J. Holt, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
E. Jane Albert Hubbard, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell BiologyResearch Keywords
cancer, developmental genetics, computational biology, metabolism, stem cell biology
Mayumi Ito Suzuki, PhD
Associate Professor, Ronald O. Perelman Department of DermatologyResearch Keywords
pharmacology, stem cell biology
David Keefe, MD
The Stanley H. Kaplan Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and GynecologyResearch Keywords
reproductive aging, oocyte dysfunction, telomeres, meiosis, stem cells, oocytes, genome integrity, stem cell biology
Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Radiation OncologyResearch Keywords
cancer
Holger Knaut, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell BiologyResearch Keywords
embryonic development, cell and tissue movements, clustering of individual neuronal precursors into a ganglion, migration of muscle and cartilage precursors into the head, developmental genetics, genome integrity, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology
Sergei B. Koralov
Associate Professor, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
cancer, immunology, microbiome, stem cell biology
Ruth Lehmann, PhD
Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professor of Cell Biology, Department of Cell BiologyResearch Keywords
germ cell development, translational regulation, RNA localization and transport, germ plasm assembly, cell migration, germ line stem cells, piRNAs, transposable elements, Wolbachia, cancer, developmental genetics, genome integrity, RNA biology, stem cell biology
Philipp Leucht, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic SurgeryResearch Keywords
bone biology, fracture healing, regeneration, osteoprogenitor cell, osteoblast, stem cell biology
David E. Levy
Dr. Louis A. Schneider Professor of Molecular Pathology, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
cytokine signaling signal transduction and gene expression, cancer, genomics, immunology, metabolism, pharmacology, stem cell biology
Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD
Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
T-lymphocyte development and retroviral pathogenesis, cancer, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, microbiome, RNA biology, stem cell biology
Susan K. Logan
Associate Professor, Department of UrologyResearch Keywords
cellular growth gontrol and androgen receptor, cancer, pharmacology, stem cell biology
Chengzu Long, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Cynthia A. Loomis, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
molecular mechanisms underlying skin and limb patterning
Jeremy F. Nance, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell BiologyResearch Keywords
C. elegans, embryogenesis, cell polarity, gastrulation, organogenesis, epithelial cells, germ cells, cancer, developmental genetics, stem cell biology
Benjamin G. Neel, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of MedicineResearch Keywords
cancer, genomics, stem cell biology
Christopher Y. Park, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
cancer, immunology, RNA biology, stem cell biology
Mark R. Philips, MD
Professor, Department of MedicineResearch Keywords
processing and membrane targeting of GTPases, cancer, immunology, pharmacology
Dimitris G. Placantonakis, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of NeurosurgeryResearch Keywords
Glioblastoma stem cells, human embryonic stem cells, glioma biology, gliomagenesis, glioma therapeutics, cancer, imaging, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience
Danny Reinberg, PhD
Terry and Mel Karmazin Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyResearch Keywords
cancer, genome integrity, genomics, pharmacology, stem cell biology
Boris Reizis, PhD
Professor, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
immunology, stem cell biology, autoimmunity
Daniel B. Rifkin
Professor, Department of Cell BiologyResearch Keywords
extracellular control of growth factor action, cancer, stem cell biology
James L. Salzer, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
channels and transporters, molecular, cellular & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology, cell-cell interactions during neural development
Robert J. Schneider
Albert B. Sabin Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Pathogenesis, Department of MicrobiologyResearch Keywords
cancer, developmental genetics, genome integrity, microbiology, pharmacology, RNA biology, stem cell biology
Markus Schober, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ronald O. Perelman Department of DermatologyResearch Keywords
cancer, developmental genetics, genome integrity, stem cell biology
Agnel Sfeir, PhD
Skirball Associate Professor of Genetics, Department of Cell BiologyResearch Keywords
cancer, developmental genetics, genome integrity, metabolism, stem cell biology
Diane M. Simeone, MD
Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery
Jane Skok, PhD
Sandra and Edward H. Meyer Professor of Radiation Oncology, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
genome integrity, genomics, immunology, stem cell biology, systems biology
Susan L. Smith, PhD
Professor, Department of PathologyResearch Keywords
mechanisms of telomere function, telomere length regulation, sister chromatid cohesion, Tankyrase 1 and Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation, cancer, genome integrity, metabolism, stem cell biology
Tung-Tien Sun, PhD
Research Professor, Department of Cell BiologyResearch Keywords
biochemistry of epithelial differentiation, cancer, pharmacology, stem cell biology
Naoko Tanese, PhD
Professor, Department of MicrobiologyResearch Keywords
cancer, microbiology, pharmacology, stem cell biology, Huntington’s disease, huntingtin, neurodegenerative disorder, RNA transport, RNA trafficking, dendrite, neuronal granule, argonaute, gene silencing, processing bodies, post-transcriptional gene regulation, transcription, chromatin, SWI/SNF, chromatin remodeling complex, ubiquitin ligase, gene expression, cell cycle, cell growth
Richard Tsien, PhD
Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
channels and transporters, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Daniel H. Turnbull, PhD
Professor, Department of RadiologyResearch Keywords
biophysics, cancer, developmental genetics, genome integrity, imaging, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology, n-vivo microimaging of transgenic mice
Elaine L. Wilson, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell BiologyResearch Keywords
cancer, stem cell biology
Kwok-Kin Wong, MD, PhD
Anne Murnick Cogan and David H. Cogan Professor of Oncology, Department of Medicine
Itai Yanai, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular PharmacologyResearch Keywords
cancer, computational biology, developmental genetics, genomics, microbiome, systems biology, single-cell transcriptomics, gene expression atlas construction, genome evolution
