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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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133 Faculty Members found
Cell Biology Program
The Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou Lab
Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou, PhD
Professor
Cell biologist Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou studies cell cycle control of centrosome duplication and degeneration, as well as cilia assembly and disassembly.
  • PhD, University of California, Davis
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Asmin Tulpule, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Tulpule lab studies how cells compartmentalize critical cellular processes with a focus on biomolecular condensates in cancer.
  • MD, Harvard Medical School
  • PhD, Harvard University
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Santosha Vardhana, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Vardhana Lab studies how nutrient availability, uptake and metabolism regulates host immune responses during cancer development and immunotherapy.
  • PhD, New York University
Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
The Andrea Ventura Lab
Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD
Professor
Cancer biologist Andrea Ventura studies non-coding RNAs in cancer and development
  • MD, Catholic University of Rome (Italy)
  • PhD, European Institute of Oncology (Milan Italy), Open University (London, UK)
  • Postdoctoral, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Developmental Biology Program
The Thomas Vierbuchen Lab
Thomas S. Vierbuchen, PhD
Assistant Professor
The Vierbuchen laboratory directs the differentiation of mouse and human pluripotent stem cells to characterize fundamental mechanisms of neuronal cell fate specification and function.
  • PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine
Cell Biology Program
Tobias Walther, PhD
Professor
The Farese & Walther lab studies the biology and pathology of cellular lipid metabolism, focusing on lipid/energy storage in lipid droplets and sphingolipid metabolism in lysosomes.
  • PhD, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
Pictured: Wendel Lab
Hans-Guido Wendel, MD
Professor
Cancer biologist Hans-Guido Wendel pursues both disease-centered and basic discovery research. The disease focus is on lymphocyte malignancies and the basic science arm of the lab explores fundamental mechanisms that control aberrant mRNA translation programs in cancer. Work in these two research areas frequently intersects in surprising ways.
  • Medical School of the Technical University of Aachen, Germany
  • Medical School of the University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Residency in Internal Medicine, University of Aachen, Germany
  • Postdoctoral Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Molecular Biology Program
The Iestyn Whitehouse Lab
Iestyn Whitehouse, PhD
Professor
Molecular biologist Iestyn Whitehouse investigates chromatin structure and the function of ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling enzymes.
  • PhD, The University of Dundee
Computational & Systems Biology Program
The Joao Xavier Lab
Joao Xavier, PhD
Professor
Systems biologist Joao Xavier combines experimental and computational approaches to study diverse problems relevant to cancer: how the microbiome influences cancer and cancer treatment, how cancer cells metastasize, and how metabolic fluxes command the behavior of living cells.
  • PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories
Rona Yaeger, MD
Associate Professor
My laboratory and clinical research focus on understanding genomics and signaling in colorectal cancer to develop new treatments for patients.
  • MD, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY