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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
Structural Biology Program
Pictured: Stephen Long laboratory
Stephen B. Long, PhD
Professor
The Long laboratory investigates the molecular mechanisms of ion channels and enzymatic membrane proteins and seeks to use these discoveries to benefit humanity.
  • BA, Physics, Amherst College, 1994
  • PhD, Biochemistry, Duke University, 2001
  • Postdoc, Rockefeller University, 2007
Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
Scott Lowe Lab
Scott W. Lowe, PhD
Professor
  • PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chemical Biology Program
The Minkui Luo Lab
Minkui Luo, PhD
Professor
Chemical Biologist Minkui Luo develops cutting-edge tools, technologies and concepts to annotate functions of protein-posttranslational modifications and designs inhibitors for cancer therapies.
  • BS, Fudan University
  • PhD, Princeton University
Molecular Biology Program
The John Maciejowski Lab
John Maciejowski, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular biologist John Maciejowski studies the causes of complex chromosome rearrangements and the patterns of hypermutation that shape cancer genomes.
  • PhD, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Molecular Biology Program
The Ken Marians Lab
Kenneth J. Marians, PhD
Professor
Kenneth Marians focuses on mechanisms of replication restart and chromosome segregation.
  • PhD, Cornell University
Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
The Massagué Lab
Joan Massagué, PhD
Professor
Joan Massagué studies the control of stem cell growth and phenotype in tumor progression, metastasis, and response to therapy.
  • PhD, University of Barcelona
Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
Christine Mayr lab
Christine Mayr, MD, PhD
Professor
Molecular and cell biologist Christine Mayr studies how 3′UTRs regulate protein functions and how mRNAs contribute to cytoplasmic organization.
  • MD, Free University Berlin
  • PhD, Humboldt University Berlin
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
The Ingo Mellinghoff Lab
Ingo K. Mellinghoff, MD, FACP
Professor
Physician-scientist Ingo Mellinghoff studies signal transduction alterations in primary brain tumors.
  • MD, Technical University Munich (Germany)
Computational & Systems Biology Program
Quaid Morris, PhD
Professor
Computational biologist Quaid Morris uses artificial intelligence techniques and develops machine learning algorithms to study gene regulation, cancer evolution, clinical informatics, and other topics in systems biology.
  • PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Rachel Niec, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Physician-scientist Rachel Niec studies how cells and tissues communicate to promote health or drive inflammation and cancer.
  • MD, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College
  • PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute