PhD Training Faculty at
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Moses V. Chao, PhD
Research Keywords
metabolism, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, molecular mechanisms of trophic factor action
Holger Knaut, PhD
Research 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
Esteban O. Mazzoni, PhD
Research Keywords
stem cell, neuronal differentiation, chromatin, ALS, Neurodegeneration
Ralph A. Nixon, PhD, MD
Research Keywords
regulation of protein structure and function by proteolysis and phosphorylation, cell and molecular biology of the neuronal cytoskeleton, molecular mechanisms of brain aging and cell death, pathogenesis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience
Dimitris G. Placantonakis, MD, PhD
Research Keywords
Glioblastoma stem cells, human embryonic stem cells, glioma biology, gliomagenesis, glioma therapeutics, cancer, imaging, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience
Niels Ringstad, PhD
Research Keywords
channels and transporters, developmental genetics, genome integrity, metabolism, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, neuromodulation, behavioral genetics
Jessica E. Treisman, PhD
Research Keywords
cancer, developmental genetics, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, cell signaling, synapse formation
Benjamin Y. Winer, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine