Genetics

Genetics Track Faculty

Faculty alignment with the tracks has not been finalized so changes with track affiliation may occur before the program start in Fall 2026.

Current Genetics Track Affiliated Faculty

  • Nicholas Arpaia, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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  • Mustafa Aydogan, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Genetics and Development

  • Kristin Baldwin, PhD

    • Professor of Genetics and Development

  • Philippe Batut

    • Assistant Professor of Genetics and Development and Reproductive Sciences (in Obstetrics and Gynecology)

  • Robert C. Bauer, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
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  • Luke E. Berchowitz, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Genetics and Development (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and-the Aging Brain)
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  • Dusan Bogunovic, PhD

    • Professor of Pediatric Immunology (in Pediatrics)
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  • Julie Canman, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology

  • Wellington V. Cardoso, MD, PhD

    • Professor of Medicine (in Genetics and Development)
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  • Edmond Chan, MD

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine

  • Chia-Wei Cheng, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Genetics and Development at CUMC
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  • Angela Christiano, PhD

    • Richard and Mildred Rhodebeck Professor of Dermatology
    • Professor of Genetics & Development
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  • Alberto Ciccia, PhD

    • Professor of Genetics and Development
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  • Carla Concepcion-Crisol, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
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  • 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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  • David A. Fidock, PhD

    • Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
    • CS Hamish Young Professor of Immunology (in Microbiology and Immunology)
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  • Ryan Gaudet, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

  • Vincenzo Alessandro Gennarino, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Genetics & Development
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  • Amin Ghabrial, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology at CUMC
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  • Anum Glasgow, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
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  • Stephen P. Goff, PhD

    • Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
    • Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
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  • Wesley Grueber, PhD

    • Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
    • Professor of Neuroscience
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  • Ivaylo Ivanov, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
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  • Laura A Johnston, PhD

    • Professor of Genetics & Development
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  • Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD

    • Paul A. Marks Professor of Genetics and Development and Professor of Medicine and of Biomedical Engineering
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  • Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD

    • Professor of Medicine
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  • Laura Landweber, PhD

    • Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
    • Professor of Biological Sciences (Columbia University)
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  • Michal Levo, PhD

    • Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
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  • Shawn Liu, PhD

    • Joan and Paul Marks, MD '49 Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
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  • Chao Lu, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Genetics and Development
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  • Dig Bijay Mahat, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Systems Biology

  • Christopher D. Makinson, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology, and the Institute of Genomic Medicine)
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  • Cathy Lee Mendelsohn, PhD

    • Professor of Urological Sciences (in Urology) and Pathology & Cell Biology and Genetics & Development (in the Institute of Human Nutrition)
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  • Vilas Menon, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer Disease and the Aging Brain)
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  • Jaewon Min, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
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  • Nandan Nerurkar, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

  • Emmanuelle Passegué, PhD

    • Alumni Professor of Genetics and Development(in Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine)
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  • Bing Ren, PhD

    • Professor of Genetics and Development and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Systems Biology
    • Associate Director in the Vagelos institute for Basic Biomedical Science

  • Rodney J. Rothstein, PhD

    • Professor of Genetics and Development (in Systems Biology)
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  • Viraj Sanghvi, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
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  • Eric A. Schon, PhD

    • Lewis P. Rowland Professor of Neurology (in Genetics and Development)
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  • Juan-Manuel Schvartzman, MD, PHD

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine

  • 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
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  • Yufeng Shen, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
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  • Falak Sher, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology and in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain)

  • Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, PhD

    • Professor of Genetics and Development
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  • Mijo Simunovic

    • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
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  • Tarjinder Singh, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Computational and Statistical Genomics (in Psychiatry)
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  • Joanna Smeeton, PhD

    • H.K. Corning Assistant Professor Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine Research (in Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine) (in Genetics and Development)
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  • Joanna Smeeton, PhD

    • H.K. Corning Assistant Professor Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine Research (in Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine) (in Genetics and Development)
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  • Samuel Sternberg, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
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  • Yousin Suh, PhD

    • Professor of Reproductive Sciences (in Obstetrics and Gynecology)
    • Professor of Genetics & Development
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  • Lorraine S. Symington, PhD

    • Harold S. Ginsberg Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Professor of Genetics and Development
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  • Kimara Leibowitz Targoff, MD

    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics at CUMC
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  • Alison M. Taylor, PhD

    • Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center)
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  • Stephen H Tsang, MD, PhD

    • Laszlo Z. Bito Professor of Ophthalmology, and Pathology and Cell Biology
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  • Aaron D Viny, MD

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine
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  • Lili Wang, PhD

    • Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)

  • Hynek Wichterle, PhD

    • Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
    • Professor of Neuroscience (in Neurology)
    • Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine
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  • Kelley Yan, MD, PhD

    • Dorothy L. & Daniel H. Silberberg Assistant Professor of Medicine
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  • Hee Won Yang, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
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  • Lori Zeltser, PhD

    • Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology
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  • Chaolin Zhang, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Systems Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (in the Motor Neuron Center)
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  • Hanrui Zhang, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine)
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  • Xin Zhang, PhD

    • Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology and in Pathology and Cell Biology)
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  • 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)
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