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.
Barrat, Franck
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
- Innate Immunity
Blander, Julie Magarian
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Innate Immunity
- Tumor Immunology
- Autoimmunity
Brown, Chrysothemis
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
- Innate Immunity
- Lymphocyte Biology
- Tumor Immunology
Crow, Mary
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
Donlin, Laura
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
- Cancer Immunology
- Cell Signaling and Signal Transduction
- Gene Expression
- Innate Immunity
- Lymphocyte Biology
- Omics
- Systems Physiology
- Tumor Immunology
Hanash, Alan
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
- Innate Immunity
- Lymphocyte Biology
- Microbiome
- Tumor Immunology
Josefowicz, Steven
Associate Professor
Current Areas of Focus:
- Lymphocyte Biology
- Autoimmunity
- Innate Immunity
Li, Ming
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Lymphocyte Biology
- Tumor Immunology
- Autoimmunity
- Innate Immunity
Lu, Theresa
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
- Innate Immunity
Ma, Xiaojing
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
- Innate Immunity
Pascual, Virginia
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
Pernis, Alessandra
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
- Lymphocyte Biology
Perry, Justin
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
- Innate Immunity
- Tumor Immunology
Rogatsky, Inez
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Innate Immunity
- Autoimmunity
Rudensky, Alexander
Professor/Chair
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
- Lymphocyte Biology
Salmon, Jane
Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
Sonnenberg, Gregory
Associate Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Microbial Pathogenesis
- Microbiome
- Autoimmunity
- Lymphocyte Biology
- Tumor Immunology
Zeng, Melody
Assistant Professor
Program of Study:
Current Areas of Focus:
- Autoimmunity
- Innate Immunity
- Microbial Pathogenesis
- Microbiome
- Tumor Immunology