Faculty

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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133 Faculty Members found

Molecular Pharmacology Program

Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD

Professor

Physician-scientist Omar Abdel-Wahab studies the functional genomics of hematopoietic malignancies.

MD, Duke University School of Medicine

Chemical Biology Program

Heeseon An, PhD

Assistant Professor

Heeseon An’s lab studies protein degradation in health and disease using chemical, biological, and proteomics tools.

BS and MS, Chemistry, Seoul National University
PhD, Chemistry, Northwestern University
Postdoc, Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories

Cristina R. Antonescu, MD

Professor

The Antonsecu lab focuses on translocation-associated sarcoma pathogenesis and generating in vitro models.

MD, Carol Davila Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy

Chemical Biology Program

Daniel Bachovchin, PhD

Professor

Chemical biologist Daniel Bachovchin designs selective inhibitors to study enzymes and pathways in cancer and immune system signaling.

PhD, The Scripps Research Institute
AB, Harvard College

Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program

Vinod Balachandran, MD

Associate Professor

Surgeon scientist Vinod Balachandran develops novel immunotherapies for pancreatic cancer.

MD, State University of New York at Stony Brook

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Developmental Biology Program

Zhirong Bao, PhD

Professor

The Bao laboratory investigates how the genome dictates development using C. elegans as a model.

PhD, Washington University

Developmental Biology Program

Mary Baylies, PhD

Professor

The Baylies laboratory studies the mechanisms that form and maintain muscle both during normal development and in disease.

PhD, The Rockefeller University

Cancer Biology & Genetics Program

Robert Benezra, PhD

Professor

Cancer biologist Robert Benezra studies the molecular mechanisms of tumor growth and metastatic progression using mouse models. In addition, he studies the spindle assembly checkpoint which ensures proper chromosome segregation and is often deregulated in cancer.