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.
Apostolou, Effie
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Development
- Omics
Betel, Doron
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Bioinformatics
Blobel, Carl
Professor
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Membranes and Membrane Proteins
David, Yael
Associate Professor
Current Areas of Focus:
- Chemical Biology
- Molecular Tools and Therapeutics
- Cancer Biology
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
Ersoy, Baran
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
Evans, Todd
Professor
Current Areas of Focus:
- Development
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Stem Cells
Goncalves, Marcus
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
Gross, Steven
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Molecular Pharmacology
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
Hajjar, Katherine
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Development
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Vascular Biology
Hempstead, Barbara
Professor
Current Areas of Focus:
- Neurodevelopment
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
Huang, Xin Yun
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Cancer Biology
- Molecular Tools and Therapeutics
Huse, Morgan
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Innate Immunity
- Lymphocyte Biology
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
Kolesnick, Richard
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Radiobiology
Lai, Eric
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Development
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Omics
Landau, Dan
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Bioinformatics
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Omics
Mason, Christopher
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Bioinformatics
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Mathematical and Computational Modeling
McGraw, Timothy
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Membranes and Membrane Proteins
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Cellular Trafficking
- Cancer Biology
Nikolov, Dimitar
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Membranes and Membrane Proteins
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Neurodevelopment
Palmer, Lawrence
Professor
Current Areas of Focus:
- Membranes and Membrane Proteins
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Systems Physiology
Pavletich, Nikola
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cancer Biology
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Molecular and Structural Biophysics
Rafii, Shahin
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Stem Cells
- Systems Physiology
- Vascular Biology
Silver, Randi
Associate Dean
Current Areas of Focus:
- Systems Physiology
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
- Membranes and Membrane Proteins
Simon, David
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Imaging
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation
Xavier, Joao
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Microbial Pathogenesis
- Cancer Biology
- Mathematical and Computational Modeling
- Cellular Signaling and Regulation