Faculty in NYU Langone’s Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology are renowned researchers and dedicated educators. Our faculty members include National Academy of Sciences members and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators.

Iannis Aifantis, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells, regeneration and homeostasis, and tissue stem cells and disease

Karim-Jean Armache, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells

Erika Bach, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells; programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; regeneration and homeostasis; and tissue stem cells and disease.

Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD
Research areas: tissue stem cells and disease

Kenneth Birnbaum, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; and regeneration and homeostasis

Jef D. Boeke, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells, regeneration and homeostasis, and tissue stem cells and disease

Lei Bu, PhD
Research areas: tissue stem cells and disease

Steven J. Burden, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; regeneration and homeostasis; and tissue stem cells and disease

Arthur L. Caplan, PhD
Research areas: medical ethics, bioethics, public policy, rules governing organ donation, and health reform

William L. Carroll, MD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells; programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; and tissue stem cells and disease

Alesha B. Castillo, PhD
Research areas: regeneration and homeostasis and tissue stem cells and disease

Daniel J. Ceradini, MD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; regeneration and homeostasis; and tissue stem cells and disease

Jeremy S. Dasen, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; and regeneration and homeostasis

Gregory David, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells and tissue stem cells and disease

Claude Desplan, PhD
Research areas: development, function, and evolution of the Drosophila visual system

Brian D. Dynlacht, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; and regeneration and homeostasis

David Fenyo, PhD
Research areas: understanding the dynamins of cellular processes using mathematical, statistical, and computational analyses

Glenn I. Fishman, MD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; regeneration and homeostasis; and tissue stem cells and disease

Robert C. Froemke, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; regeneration and homeostasis; and tissue stem cells and disease

Eva M. Hernando-Monge, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells and tissue stem cells and disease

Liam J. Holt, PhD
Research areas: using synthetic biology to understand how signaling networks drive stem cell differentiation and cancer

E. Jane Albert Hubbard, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells; programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; regeneration and homeostasis; and tissue stem cells and disease

Mayumi Ito Suzuki, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells, regeneration and homeostasis, and tissue stem cells and disease

Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD
Research areas: role of metabolic dependencies and autophagy in pancreatic cancer

Holger Knaut, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; and tissue stem cells and disease

Sergei B. Koralov
Research areas: cancer and stem cells; programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; and tissue stem cells and disease

Philipp Leucht, MD, PhD
Research areas: regeneration and homeostasis and tissue stem cells and disease

David E. Levy
Research areas: tissue stem cells and disease

Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; and tissue stem cells and disease

Susan K. Logan
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; and tissue stem cells and disease

Chengzu Long, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; and regeneration and homeostasis

Cynthia A. Loomis, MD, PhD
Research areas: molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in mammalian skin and limb development

Esteban O. Mazzoni, PhD
Research areas: tissue stem cells and disease

Shruti Naik, PhD
Research areas: regeneration and homeostasis and tissue stem cells and disease

Jeremy F. Nance, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development

Benjamin G. Neel, MD, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells

Christopher Y. Park, MD, PhD
Research areas: molecular mechanisms that regulate normal and malignant stem cells in the hemopoietic system

Catherine Pei-ju Lu, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; regeneration and homeostasis; and tissue stem cells and disease

Mark R. Philips, MD
Research areas: the regulation of the subcellular localization of signaling molecules of pathways related to Ras and its GTPases

Dimitris G. Placantonakis, MD, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells; programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; regeneration and homeostasis; and tissue stem cells and disease

Boris Reizis, PhD
Research areas: function of hematopoietic stem cells in the steady state and during leukemogenesis

Daniel B. Rifkin, PhD
Research areas: the biochemistry and cell biology of the TGF-beta latent complex and their role in the extracellular matrix and aortic dissections

James L. Salzer, MD, PhD
Research areas: regeneration and homeostasis and tissue stem cells and disease

Robert J. Schneider
Research areas: cancer and stem cells and tissue stem cells and disease

Markus Schober, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells; programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; and tissue stem cells and disease

Farnaz Shamsi, PhD
Research areas: the regulation of adipose tissue development and function and its role in systemic metabolism

Jane Skok, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development

Susan L. Smith, PhD
Research areas: regeneration and homeostasis and tissue stem cells and disease

Richard Tsien, PhD
Research areas: tissue stem cells and disease

Elaine L. Wilson, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells and tissue stem cells and disease

Kwok-Kin Wong, MD, PhD
Research areas: pathogenesis and genetic alterations in lung tumorigenesis and the role of targeted therapies to treat lung cancer

Michael N. Wosczyna, PhD
Research areas: programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; regeneration and homeostasis; and tissue stem cells and disease

Itai Yanai, PhD
Research areas: cancer and stem cells; programming and reprogramming, lineage restriction and development; and tissue stem cells and disease