Chairman
Frederick R. Maxfield, Ph.D.
- Acting Chairman of Cell and Developmental Biology, Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry
Research Description: Membrane traffic and cell motility
Weill Cornell Medicine Faculty
Anthony Brown, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Description: WNT signaling in stem cells and cancer
Jingli Cao, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Description: Mechanisms of tissue regeneration
Rohit Chandwani, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Surgery
Research Description: Epigenetic dependencies in cancer
Todd R. Evans, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Surgery
Research Description: Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of Organogenesis
Domenick J. Falcone, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Research Description: Vascular Biology and Inflammation
Bishoy M. Faltas, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Medicine
Research Description: Role of APOBEC3 mutagenic enzymes in bladder cancer
Michele Fuortes, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Description: Neutrophil activation in septic shock
Ding Cheng Gao, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Description: Tumor metastasis and microenvironment
Katherine Hajjar, M.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Pediatrics
Research Description: Biology of Annexin A2-Mediated Cell Surface Proteolytic System
Michael Harrison, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Description: Blood and lymphatic vessels in development and regeneration
Yariv J. Houvras, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Research in Cell and Developmental Biology in Surgery
Research Description: Genetics of thyroid cancer and melanoma
Tobias Meyer, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology (Interim)
Research Description: We seek to understand the signaling mechanisms how normal and cancer cells decide to move and divide.
Vivek Mittal, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Description: Contribution of bone marrow-derived stem/progenitor cells to cancer
Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Ophthalmology
Research Description: Epithelial and Retinal Cell Biology
Marco Seandel, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Research in Cell and Developmental Biology in Surgery
Research Description: Spermatogonial stem cells and congenital disease risk
Heidi Stuhlmann, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Description: Blood vessels in development and disease
Ching-Hwa Sung, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell Biology in Ophthalmology
Research Description: Biology and therapy of retinal degenerative diseases
John A. Wagner, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Neuroscience
Research Description: Regulation of immune function by neural signaling
Baolin Wang, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Genetic Medicine
Research Description: Hedgehog signaling and primary cilia in development and disease
Staff
Fayola Bellamy
- Administrative Coordinator
External Faculty
Jill Bargonetti, Ph.D.
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, WCM;
- Professor of Cancer Biology, Hunter College, City University of New York
Research Description: Signal transduction to- and from- oncogenic mutant p53, and MDM2 isoforms in cancer
Luisa Campagnolo, Ph.D.
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, WCM;
- Assistant Professor of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Research Description: Molecular mechanisms of embryo development, from implantation to placental development in physiological and pathological conditions
Chitra Dahia, Ph.D.
- Assistant Scientist Tissue Engineering Regeneration & Repair Program (HSS); Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, WCM
Research Description: Spine Development and Regeneration
Lidong Qin, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, WCM;
- Professor of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Research Description: Translational cancer medicine
Haifa Shen, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, WCM;
- Professor of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Research Description: Development of Cancer Therapeutics and Targeted Drug Delivery
Michelle D. Wang, Ph.D.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Professor of Physics in Cell and Developmental Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca
Research Description: Single-molecule biophysics
