Affiliated Faculty
Faculty alignment with the tracks has not been finalized so changes with track affiliation may occur before the program start in fall 2026.
Disease and Therapeutics Track Affiliated Faculty
Cory Abate-Shen, PhD
- Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Professor of Urologic Sciences (in Urology)
- Robert Sonneborn Professor of Medicine
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD
- Associate Professor of Biological Sciences (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, PhD
- Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Associate Dean for Biomedical Graduate Education
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)
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
Sabrina Diano, PhD
- Robert R. Williams Professor of Nutrition (in Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics and in the Institute of Human Nutrition)
David A. Fidock, PhD
- Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
- CS Hamish Young Professor of Immunology (in Microbiology and Immunology)
Joseph A. Gogos, MD, PhD
- Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Neuroscience and Psychiatry (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
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
Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD
- Lawrence C. Kolb Professor of Psychiatry
Rebecca Anne Haeusler, PhD
- Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology
- Associate Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
Ulrich Hengst, PhD
- Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain)
Benjamin Izar, MD, PhD
- Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Associate Professor of Medicine
- Assistant Professor of Systems Biology
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)
Jingyue Ju, PhD
- Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering
Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD
- Paul A. Marks Professor of Genetics and Development and Professor of Medicine and of Biomedical Engineering
Robert S Kass, PhD
- Hosack Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- Alumni Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics (in Neuroscience)
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)
Clay Lacefield, PhD
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry)
Ya-Cheng Liao, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain)
J. John Mann, MD
- Paul Janssen Professor of Translational Neuroscience (in Psychiatry and in Radiology)
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)
Vilas Menon, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer Disease and the Aging Brain)
Bradley Miller, PhD
- Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychiatry
Gary W. Miller, PhD
- Adrienne Block Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Jaewon Min, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
Anne Moscona, MD
- Sherie L. Morrison Professor of Immunology (in Microbiology and Immunology)
- Professor of Pediatrics
- Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
Yueqing Peng, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology in the Institute for Genomic Medicine
Alice S. Prince, MD
- John M. Driscoll Jr., MD and Yvonne Driscoll, MD Professor of Pediatrics in Division of Infectious Diseases
Li Qiang, PhD
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Medical Sciences
Kapil V. Ramachandran, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology, Neuroscience, and the Taub Institute)
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)
Falak Sher, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences
Elanor Simpson, PhD
- Associate Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry)
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)
Brent R Stockwell, PhD
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences
- Professor of Chemistry
- Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology
Megan Sykes, MD
- Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Surgical Sciences (in Surgery)
- Michael J. Friedlander Professor of Medicine
Alison M. Taylor, PhD
- Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Carol M. Troy, MD, PhD
- Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Neurology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) at CUMC
Jeremy M. Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD
- Ruane Professor for the Implementation of Science for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (in Psychiatry)
- Professor of Pediatrics
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD
- Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
Harris H. Wang, PhD
- Professor of Systems Biology, of Pathology and Cell Biology, and of Biomedical Engineering
Lili Wang, MD, PhD
- Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
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)
Chaolin Zhang, PhD
- Associate Professor of Systems Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (in the Motor Neuron Center)
Xin Zhang, PhD
- Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology and in Pathology and Cell Biology)
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)
