Faculty
Weill Cornell Graduate School appoints faculty to each of the degree programs. Our PhD faculty also hold Weill Cornell Medical College appointments or an appointment with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. WCGS has appointed over 300 exceptional professors to the faculty. Our faculty continue to engage in cutting-edge research and work alongside our students, mentoring and directing their education. Many of our faculty are members of our two affiliated Tri-Institutional Programs: Computational Biology & Medicine and Chemical Biology.
Faculty Honors
Graduate School faculty are leaders in their respective fields. Many of our faculty receive prestigious honors and awards for their teaching and research.
Khurana, Ekta
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Bioinformatics
- Cancer Biology
- Mathematical and Computational Modeling
Koff, Andrew
Koutcher, Jason
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Imaging
- Cancer Biology
Leslie, Christina
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Bioinformatics
Levine, Ross
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Signaling and Signal Transduction
- Omics
Lito, Piro
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Signaling and Signal Transduction
Lyden, David
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Membranes and Membrane Proteins
- Cell Biology, Metabolism & Signaling
- Molecular Immunobiology
- Cancer Biology
Maciejowski, John
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Chromosome Structure and Function
- Cancer Biology
Massague, Joan
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Differentiation
- Stem Cells
McGraw, Timothy
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Membranes and Membrane Proteins
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Cellular Trafficking
- Cancer Biology
Meyer, Tobias
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cell Biology, Metabolism & Signaling
- Integrative Cell and Systems Physiology
- Cancer Biology
- Membranes and Membrane Proteins
Mittal, Vivek
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Signaling and Signal Transduction
- Stem Cells
Niethammer, Philipp
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
Overholtzer, Michael
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Signaling and Signal Transduction
- Stem Cells
Paik, Ji-Hye
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Differentiation
- Stem Cells
Parada, Luis
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Differentiation
Pavletich, Nikola
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Molecular and Structural Biophysics
Pe'er, Dana
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Mathematical and Computational Modeling
- Bioinformatics
Petrini, John
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Genome Structure & Function, RNA Biology
- Developmental Biology & Stem Cells
- Cell Biology, Metabolism & Signaling
- Cancer Biology
Piskounova, Elena
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
Powell, Simon
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- DNA Repair/Replication
Rickman, David
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
Sawyers, Charles
Schultz, Nikolaus
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Computational Biomedicine
- Computational and Systems Genomics
Seandel, Marco
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells
- Vascular Biology
Shen, Wen
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Tumor Immunology
- Chromosome Structure and Function
Siolas, Despina
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Tumor Immunology
Tammela, Tuomas
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology, Metabolism & Signaling
Ventura, Andrea
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- RNA Processing
Wang, Baolin
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cell Signaling and Signal Transduction
- Cancer Biology