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Chairman
Frederick R. Maxfield, Ph.D.
- Acting Chairman of Cell and Developmental Biology, Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry
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646-962-2759
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Membrane traffic and cell motility
Weill Cornell Medicine Faculty
Anthony Brown, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
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646-962-2214
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WNT signaling in stem cells and cancer
Jingli Cao, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
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Mechanisms of tissue regeneration
Rohit Chandwani, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Surgery
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212-746-2127
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Epigenetic dependencies in cancer
Todd R. Evans, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Surgery
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212-746-9487
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Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of Organogenesis
Domenick J. Falcone, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
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212-746-6491
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Vascular Biology and Inflammation
Bishoy M. Faltas, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Medicine
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646-962-2072
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Role of APOBEC3 mutagenic enzymes in bladder cancer
Michele Fuortes, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
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646-962-2145
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Neutrophil activation in septic shock
Ding Cheng Gao, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Cardiothoracic Surgery
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212-746-9450
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Tumor metastasis and microenvironment
Katherine Hajjar, M.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Pediatrics
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212-746-2034
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Biology of Annexin A2-Mediated Cell Surface Proteolytic System
Yariv J. Houvras, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Research in Cell and Developmental Biology in Surgery
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646-962-1607
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Genetics of thyroid cancer and melanoma
Vivek Mittal, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Cardiothoracic Surgery
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212-746-9401
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Contribution of bone marrow-derived stem/progenitor cells to cancer
Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Ophthalmology
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212-746-2290
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Epithelial and Retinal Cell Biology
Marco Seandel, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Research in Cell and Developmental Biology in Surgery
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212-746-3071
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Spermatogonial stem cells and congenital disease risk
Heidi Stuhlmann, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
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212-746-6156
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Blood vessels in development and disease
Ching-Hwa Sung, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell Biology in Ophthalmology
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212-746-2291
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Biology and therapy of retinal degenerative diseases
John A. Wagner, Ph.D.
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Neuroscience
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212-746-6586
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Regulation of immune function by neural signaling
Baolin Wang, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Genetic Medicine
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212-746-5357
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Hedgehog signaling and primary cilia in development and disease
Staff
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
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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
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Spine Development and Regeneration
Lidong Qin, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, WCM;
- Professor of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute
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Translational cancer medicine
Haifa Shen, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, WCM;
- Professor of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute
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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
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Single-molecule biophysics