Affiliated Faculty
Faculty alignment with the tracks has not been finished so changes with track affiliation may occur before the program start in fall 2026.
Cancer Biology Track Affiliated Faculty
Cory Abate-Shen, PhD
- Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Professor of Urologic Sciences (in Urology)
- Robert Sonneborn Professor of Medicine
Larry Abbott, PhD
- William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience
- Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics (in Biological Sciences and in the Mortimer B Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
Swarnali Acharyya, PhD
- Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
Osama Al-Dalahmah, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor in Pathology and Cell Biology
Rando L. Allikmets, PhD
- William and Donna Acquavella Professor of Ophthalmic Sciences (in Ophthalmology and Pathology and Cell Biology)
Ottavio Arancio, MD, PhD
- Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and of Medicine (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain)
Elizabeth M. Bradshaw, PhD
- Adler Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology, the Taub Institute, and the Institute for Genomic Medicine)
Andrea Califano, Dr
- Clyde '56 and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology (in Systems Biology)
- Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Professor of Medicine in the Institute for Cancer Genetics
Christine Iok In Chio, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Genetics and Development (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
Angela Christiano, PhD
- Richard and Mildred Rhodebeck Professor of Dermatology
- Professor of Genetics & Development
Henry Colecraft, PhD
- John C. Dalton Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
- Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Interim Chair, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD
- Percy and Joanne Uris Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Genetics and Development and Microbiology and Immunology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center)
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Philip L. De Jager, MD, PHD
- Weil-Granat Professor of Neurology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain)
Lei Ding, PhD
- Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine
- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Sergei Doulatov, PhD
- Associate Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Wassim Elyaman, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology, the Taub Institute and the Institute for Genomic Medicine)
Aristidis Floratos, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics (in the Department of Systems Biology)
Ruben L Gonzalez Jr, PhD
- Dean of Science of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Chair, Frontiers of Science, Department of Chemistry
- Professor of Chemistry
- Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
Max E. Gottesman, PhD
- Charles H. Revson Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Microbiology (in the Institute of Cancer Research);
Wei Gu, PhD
- Abraham and Mildred Goldstein Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
Yiping W. Han, PhD
- Professor of Microbial Sciences (in Dental Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medical Sciences in Medicine)
Benjamin Izar, MD, PhD
- Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Associate Professor of Medicine
- Assistant Professor of Systems Biology
Radhika Jagannathan, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Neurology (in the Taub Institute)
Jonathan A. Javitch, MD, PhD
- Lieber Professor of Experimental Therapeutics (in Psychiatry)
- Professor of Pharmacology (in the Center for Molecular Recognition and in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics)
Tae-Wan Kim, PhD
- Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain)
Christopher D. Makinson, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology, and the Institute of Genomic Medicine)
Tom Maniatis, PhD
- Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
Andrew R. Marks, MD
- Clyde '56 and Helen Wu Professor of Molecular Cardiology (in Medicine)
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Steven Owen Marx, MD
- Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Cardiology (in Medicine) to Honor Dr. Le Roy E. Rabbani (in Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics)
Carol A. Mason, PhD
- Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Neuroscience and Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology and in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
- Chair of Interschool Planning in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Cathy Lee Mendelsohn, PhD
- Professor of Urological Sciences (in Urology) and Pathology & Cell Biology and Genetics & Development (in the Institute of Human Nutrition)
Vilas Menon, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer Disease and the Aging Brain)
Jaewon Min, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
David M. Owens, PhD
- Professor of Epithelial Cell Biology (in Dermatology and Pathology and Cell Biology)
Teresa Palomero , PhD
- Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics) at CUMC
Arthur G. Palmer III, PhD
- Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Laura Pasqualucci, MD
- Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics) at CUMC
Martin Picard, PhD
- Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine (in Psychiatry, Neurology and the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center)
Alice S. Prince, MD
- John M. Driscoll Jr., MD and Yvonne Driscoll, MD Professor of Pediatrics in Division of Infectious Diseases
Serge Przedborski, MD, PhD
- Page and William Black Professor of Neurology (in Pathology and Cell Biology and Neuroscience)
Steven L. Reiner, MD
- Charles H. Revson Professor in Cancer Research (in Microbiology and lmmunology) and Professor of Pediatrics
Tannishtha Reya, PhD
- Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Basic Science Research in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Lawrence S. Shapiro, PhD
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Professor of Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology and in the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center)
Michael L. Shelanski, MD, PhD
- Henry Taub Professor of Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain (in Pathology and Cell Biology and in the Taub Institute)
Michael M. Shen, PhD
- Arthur J. Antenucci Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine), Genetics and Development and Urological Sciences (in Urology) (in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center and in Systems Biology
Falak Sher, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology and in the Taub Institute)
Steven A Siegelbaum, PhD
- Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Gerald D Fischbach, MD Professor of Neuroscience
Peter A Sims, PhD
- Associate Professor of Systems Biology (in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and in Systems Biology)
Scott A. Small, MD
- Boris and Rose Katz Professor of Neurology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and in Radiology)
Janet R. Sparrow, PhD
- Anthony Donn Professor of Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology)
- Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
Andrew A. Sproul, PhD
- Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) at CUMC
Brent R Stockwell, PhD
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences
- Professor of Chemistry
- Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology
Gary Struhl, PhD
- Professor of Genetics and Development and Neuroscience
- Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at the Zuckerman Institute
Yousin Suh, PhD
- Professor of Reproductive Sciences (in Obstetrics and Gynecology)
- Professor of Genetics & Development
Lorraine S. Symington, PhD
- Harold S. Ginsberg Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Professor of Genetics and Development
Ira A Tabas, MD
- Richard J. Stock Professor of Medicine (Immunology)
- Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Alan R Tall, MD
- Tilden-Weger-Bieler Professor of Medicine
- Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
Alison M. Taylor, PhD
- Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Richard Vallee, PhD
- Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Cell Biology
- Special Lecturer in Pathology and Cell Biology
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD
- Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
Lili Wang, PhD
- Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD
- H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology and in Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Hynek Wichterle, PhD
- Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
- Professor of Neuroscience (in Neurology)
- Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine
Robert J Winchester, MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
- Professor of Pediatrics
Yvon Woappi, PhD
- Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Shan Zha, MD, PhD
- James A Wolff Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology and Cell Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics and in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Zhiguo Zhang, PhD
- Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Epigenomic and Molecular Biology (in Pediatrics, Genetics and Development and in the Institute of Cancer Genetics)
