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.
Phillips, Erica
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Pickel, Virginia
Piskounova, Elena
Adjunct Assistant
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
Pitt, Geoffrey
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cardiovascular Pharmacology
- Neurobiology
Platholi, Jimcy
Pleil, Kristen
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Molecular Pharmacology
- Neuropharmacology and Neuronal Signaling
- Addiction
Podolsky, Michael
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cell Biology, Metabolism & Signaling
Pollak, JP
Powell, Simon
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- DNA Repair/Replication
Pownall, Henry
Primiano, Michelle
Prusky, Glen
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Neural Systems
- Molecular Tools and Therapeutics
Pugh, B. Franklin
Professor
Program of Study:
Purpura, Keith
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Neural Networks
Rafii, Shahin
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Stem Cells
- Systems Physiology
- Vascular Biology
Rajadhyaksha, Anjali
Ratan, Rajiv
Razlighi, Ray
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Reilly, Shannon
Remus, Dirk
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Genome Structure & Function, RNA Biology
Rentz, Robert
Reznik, Eduard
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Integrative Cell and Systems Physiology
- Computational Biomedicine
- Computational and Systems Genomics
Rhee, Kyu
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Innate Immunity
- Microbial Pathogenesis
Rice, Charles
Rickman, David
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
Riegelhaupt, Paul
Risca, Viviana
Rizzuto, Gabrielle
Robbins, Laura
Robinson, Brian