Faculty Member Directory

Niroshana Anandasabapathy
Associate Professor
Dermatology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Immunity, Immunotherapy, T Cells, Tumor Immunology, Tumor-Associated Immune Response

Doug Antczak
Professor
Baker Institute for Animal Health, Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Antibody, Cell Biology, Genetics / Genomics, Horse, Immune Regulation, Immunogenetics, Mhc, Placenta, Pregnancy, T Cells, T Lymphocytes, Trophoblast

Avery August
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Allergic Asthma, Gene Regulation, Immune Cell Activation, Immune Response, Immunoengineering, Inflammation, Signaling, T Cell Activation, T Cell Differentiation, T Cells, Tyrosine Kinases

Franck Barrat
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Dendritic Cells, Fibrosis, Human Health, Ifn, Immune Regulation, Immune-Mediated Disease, Immunity, Inflammation, Innate Receptors, Lupus, Signaling, TLR

Julie Magarian Blander
Professor
Immunology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Antigen Presentation, Apoptosis, B Cell, Cancer, Immune Response, Immunity, Infection, Inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Innate Immunity, T Cells, TLR

Saikat Boliar
Research Associate
Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: B Cell, Hiv / Aids, Hiv-1, Immunopathogenesis, Latency/Persistence, Macrophages, T Cells

Andrew Brandmaier
Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Cancer Immunotherapy, Effector Function, Immunotherapy, Radiation, T Cells

Ilana Brito
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering - Ithaca
Interests: Antimicrobial Resistance, Genetics / Genomics, Host-Microbe Interaction, Human Health, Infectious Disease, Inflammation, Microbiome, Virus/Virology

Nicolas Buchon
Professor
Entomology
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences - Ithaca
Interests: Bacteria, Gene Regulation, Genetics / Genomics, Gut Microbiome, Host-Microbe Interaction, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Innate Immunity, Microbiome, Microbiota, Mucosal Immunology, Pathogenesis, Stem Cells

Yung-Fu Chang
Professor
Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Adjuvants, Microbial Pathogenesis, Proteome, Vaccine Developent, Vaccines

Jonathan Cheetham
Associate Professor
Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Immune Modulation, Immunoengineering, Macrophages, Peripheral Nerve Repair

Soon Hon Cheong
Assistant Professor
Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Antimicrobial Resistance, Immunity, Infection, Microbiome, Neonatal, Pregnancy, Reproduction

C. C. Chu
Rebecca Q. Morgan '60 Professor
Biomedical Engineering field, and Fiber Sci and Apparel Design Dept.
College of Human Ecology - Ithaca
Interests: Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Inflammation, Macrophages, Wound Healing

Ted Clark
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Adaptive Immunity, Host-Parasite Interaction, Membrane Fusion, Therapeutic Antibody Discovery, Vaccine Developent, Vaccines

Cristina Clement
Assistant Research Professor
Radiation Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Cancer Immunotherapy, Lymphatics

Paula Cohen
Professor and Associate Vice Provost for LIfe Sciences
Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Germ Cells, Meiosis, Stem Cells

Michael Corley
Assistant Professor
Medicine
- New York City
Interests: DNA Methylation, Epigenetics, Gene Regulation, Infection

Charles Danko
Robert N Noyce Assistant Professor
Baker Institute for Animal Health
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Cancer, Gene Regulation, Genetics / Genomics, T Cells

Melissa Davis
Assistant Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer Disparities, Genetics / Genomics, Immune Response, International, Molecular Epidemiology, Tumor Subtypes, Tumor-Associated Immune Response

Miguel de Mulder Rougvie
Assistant Professor of Virology Research in Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Endogenous Retroviruses, Hiv / Aids, Hiv-1

Matthew DeLisa
William L. Lewis Professor of Engineering
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
College of Engineering - Ithaca
Interests: Antibody Engineering, Glycobiology, Glycoimmunology, Immunoengineering, Vaccine Developent, Vaccines

Sandra Demaria
Professor
Radiation Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Anti-Tumor T Cell Repertoire, Cancer Immunotherapy, Combinations Of Radiotherapy & Immune Checkpoint Blockade, Mechanistic Links Between DNA Damage Response & Tumor Immunogencity

Mariana Diel de Amorim
Assistant Professor
Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Fertility, Gene Regulation, Horse, Inflammation, Placenta, Pregnancy

Anushka Dongre
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Cancer - Breast, Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition, Immune checkpoint blockade, Immunosuppression, T Cells, Tumor Microenvironment

Kate Dupnik
Assistant Professor
Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Host-Pathogen Response, Mycobacteria, Transcriptome

Sabine Ehrt
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Host-Pathogen Interaction, Infection, Molecular Microbiology, Pathogenesis

Olivier Elemento
Director Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
The Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Clinical Data, Gene Regulation, Genetics / Genomics

Julia Felippe
Professor
Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: B Cell, Gene Regulation, Immunoglobulin, Regenerative Medicine, Vaccines

Cedric Feschotte
Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences - Ithaca
Interests: Endogenous Retroviruses, Evolutionary Genomics, Gene Regulation, Innate Immunity, Transposable Elements

Julia Finkelstein
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Nutrition
Nutritional Sciences
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, College of Human Ecology - Ithaca
Interests: Infection, Inflammation, Maternal & Child Health, Nutrition, Pregnancy

Andrew Flyak
Assistant Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests:

Sylvia Formenti
Professor
Radiation Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Brain, Cancer, Cancer - Breast, Cancer - Lung, Clinical Data, Immune Checkpoint, Immunotherapy, Radiation

Deborah Fowell
Director, Cornell Center for Immunology; Chair and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ithaca
Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: In Vivo Imaging, Inflammation, T Cells

Lorenzo Galluzzi
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology Research in Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Apoptosis, Autophagy, Cancer - Breast, Nutritional Interventions, Tumor Immunology

Martin Gilbert
Senior Research Associate
Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Distemper, Wildlife

David Gludish
Senior Research Associate
Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Hematopoietic Progenitors, Hiv / Aids, Lung, Lung Progenitor Cells, Macrophage, Myeloid, SARS-CoV2, Stem Cells

Rob Goggs
Assistant Professor of Emergency & Critical Care
Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Antimicrobial Resistance, Biomarkers, Hemolytic Anemia, Microbiome, Thrombocytopenia

Andrea Gramatica
Instructor of Immunology in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Hiv / Aids, T Cells

Andrew Grimson
Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences - Ithaca
Interests:

Cassie Guarino
Extension Associate
Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Antibody, Biomarkers, Infectious Disease, Luminex, Serolgy

CJ Guo
Assistant Professor of Immunology in Medicine
Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Host-Microbe Interaction, Microbiome, Microbiota

Monica Guzman
Associate Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine
Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Cancer - Leukemia

Dave Holowka
Senior Scientist
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
College of Arts & Sciences - Ithaca
Interests: Cell Signaling, Cell Trafficking, Fluorescence Methods, Imaging, Membrane Structure & Function

Fenghua Hu
Assistant Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences - Ithaca
Interests: Aging, Autophagy, Brain, Cell Biology, Microglia Mediated Inflammation, Neurodegeneration

Weishan Huang
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Allergic Asthma, Immune Checkpoint, Immune Memory, Inflammation, Regulatory Lymphocytes

Kelly Hume
Associate Professor
Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Biomarkers, Cancer, Chemosensitivity, DNA Damage Responses, Drug Repurposing

Iliyan Iliev
Associate Professor
Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Host-Microbe Interaction, Host-Microbiome Interaction, Innate Immunity, Microbiome, Microbiota, Tumor Immunology

Lionel Ivashkiv
Professor
Medicine
Hospital for Special Surgery - New York City
Interests: Cytokines, Epigenomics, Macrophages, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Signaling

Shaoyi Jiang
Robert S. Langer ’70 Family and Friends Professor
Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering - Ithaca
Interests: Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Engineering, Gene Delivery, Immune Modulation, Immune-modulating Materials, Immunoengineering

Liz Johnson
Assistant Professor
Nutritional Sciences
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, College of Human Ecology - Ithaca
Interests: Diet, Genetics / Genomics, Gut Microbiome, Host-Microbiome Interaction, Lipidomics, Microbiome, Molecular Microbiology, Sphingolipids

Steven Josefowicz
Assistant Professor
Pathology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Adaptive Immunity, Cancer - Melanoma, Epigenetics, Epigenomics, H3.3, Histones, Inflammation, Signal Transduction, T Cells

Josephine Kang
Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Cancer - Prostate, Combination Treatments, Combinations Of Radiotherapy & Immune Checkpoint Blockade, Immunotherapy, Microbiome, Radiation

Katie Kelly
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Brain, Myocarditis

Ekta Khurana
Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics
Meyer Cancer Center
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Computational Biology, Genetics / Genomics

Dan Klessig
Professor
Boyce Thompson Institute
Boyce Thompson Institute - Ithaca
Interests: Salicylic Acid

Gary Koretzky
Professor
Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology
Weill Cornell Medical - Ithaca, New York City
Interests: Adapter Proteins, Cancer Immunotherapy, Immune Development, Signal Transduction, T Cells

Jan Lammerding
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering - Ithaca
Interests: Biomaterials, Cancer, Cell Migration, Drug Delivery, Engineering, Imaging, Mechanobiology, Nucleus

Colleen Lau
Assistant Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Adaptive Immunity, Cytokines, Epigenetics, Immune Memory, Innate Immunity, Lymphocytes, Natural Killer Cells, T Cells

Brian Lazzaro
Professor
Entomology
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences - Ithaca
Interests: Bacteria, Evolutionary Genomics, Genetics / Genomics, Host-Pathogen Interaction

Cynthia Leifer
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Immunoengineering, Infection, Inflammation, Innate Immunity, Vaccines

Manigandan Lejeune
Director Clinical Parasitology
Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Biodiversity, Diagnostic Parasitology, Host-Parasite Interaction, Wildlife

Hening Lin
Professor
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
College of Arts & Sciences - Ithaca
Interests: Cell Signaling, Cell Trafficking, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Post-Translational Modification

John Loftus
Assistant Professor
Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Aging, Biomarkers, Immune Regulation, Immune-Mediated Disease, Immunosenescence, Inflammation

Theresa Lu
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
HSS/WCM Microbiology and Immunology
Hospital for Special Surgery - New York City
Interests: Immune Cell-Stromal Interactions, Lupus, Lymph Nodes, Lymphatics, Scleroderma, Skin

Minglin Ma
Assistant Professor
Biological & Environmental Engineering
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences - Ithaca
Interests: Biomaterials, Cell Therapy, Diabetes, Immune Modulation, Immune Regulation, Immunoengineering, Insulin, Organ Rejection

Yuxin Mao
Associate Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics
College of Arts & Sciences - Ithaca
Interests: Cell Signaling, Cell Trafficking, Host-Microbe Interaction, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Host-Pathogen Response, Human Health, Infection, Innate Immunity, Macrophages, Structural Biology

Ariel E. Marciscano
Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Cancer Immunotherapy, Immunooncology, Immunotherapy, Radiation

Christopher Mason
Associate Professor
Physiology and Biophysics
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Epigenetics, Epigenomics, Genetics / Genomics, Human Health, Transcription Factors, Transcriptome

Irina Matei
Assistant Professor of Immunology Research in Pediatrics
Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Exosomes/Exomeres, Inflammation, Tumor Immunology, Tumor Microenvironment, Tumor-Associated Immune Response

Mandy McGeachy
Associate Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Autoimmunity, B Cell, Infection, Inflammation, Mucosal Immunology, Stromal Cells, Th17

Saurabh Mehta
Associate Professor
Nutritional Sciences
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, College of Human Ecology - Ithaca
Interests: Diagnostics, Human Health, Infectious Disease, International, Microbiome, micronutrients, Nutrition, Nutritional Immunology

Ari Melnick
Professor
Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: B Cell, Cancer, Cancer - Lymphomas, Chromatin, Epigenetics, Germinal Centers, Transcription Factors, Tumor Immunology

Irene Min
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology Research
Surgery
Hospital for Special Surgery - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Cancer - Endocrine, Cancer - Thyroid, CAR-T, Gene Regulation, Immunoengineering, T Cells

Linda Mittel
Senrior Extension Associate
Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Horse, Host-Parasite Interaction

Juan Miguel Mosquera
Associate Professor
Pathology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Biomarkers, Cancer, Cancer - Prostate, Gene Fusions, Immunooncology

Carl Nathan
Professor and Chair
Microbiology & Immunology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Antimicrobial Resistance, Drug Discovery, Immune Modulation, Infection, Macrophages, Mycobacteria, Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Lishomwa Ndhlovu
Professor
Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests:

Anthony Ong
Professor
Human Development
College of Human Ecology - Ithaca
Interests: Aging, Emotions, Human Health, Relationships, Stress

Robert Peck
Associate Professor
Center for Global Health
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cardiovascular Disease, Epidemiology, Heart, Hypertension

Alessandra Pernis
Senior Scientist
Autoimmunity
Hospital for Special Surgery - New York City
Interests: B Cell, Immune Cell Activation, Immune Response, Lupus, Lymphocytes, Pathogenesis, Signaling, T Cell Activation, T Cell Development, T Cell Differentiation, T Cells, Vascular

Yi Ren
Assistant Professor
Animal Science
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences - Ithaca
Interests: Cancer - Ovarian, Endocrinology, Fertility, Germ Cells, Immunoengineering, Inflammation, Pregnancy, Reproduction, Signaling, Vascular

Brian Rudd
Associate Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Adaptive Immunity, Aging, Immune Memory, Immune Response, Infection, Infectious Disease, Lymphocytes, Neonatal, T Cells

Jane Salmon
Professor
Rheumatology
Hospital for Special Surgery - New York City
Interests: Biomarkers, Heart, Immune-Mediated Disease, Inflammation, Innate Immunity, Lupus, Pregnancy, Structural Biology, Thrombosis

Chris Schaffer
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering - Ithaca
Interests: In Vivo Imaging, Inflammation, Neurodegeneration, Nonlinear Microscopy, Vascular

John Schimenti
Professor
Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Cancer, Cell Biology, DNA Repair, Genetics / Genomics, Genomic Instability, Immune Checkpoint, Inflammation, Reproduction

Praveen Sethupathy
Professor of Physiological Genomics
Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Gene Regulation, Genetics / Genomics, Infection - Enteric, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, microRNA, Paneth cells

Wen Shen
Associate Professor
Cell Biology in Radiation Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Cell Biology, Chromatin, Epigenomics, Genetics / Genomics, Immunity, Immunotherapy, Pten, Tumor Immunology

Gennady Shvets
Professor
Applied & Engineering Physics
College of Engineering - Ithaca
Interests: All-Optical Cytopathology, Cancer, Cell Signaling, Drug Screens, Engineering, Microfluidics, Multi-Drug Resistance, Signaling

Glenn Simmons Jr.
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests:

Anja Sipka
Research Associate
Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Host-Pathogen Interaction, Host-Pathogen Response, Immune Modulation, Immune Regulation, Infection, Innate Immunity, Myeloid Cell Plasticity, Pregnancy

Barry Sleckman
Professor
Pathology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Antigen Receptor Gene Rearrangement, B Cell, DNA Damage Responses, Immune Regulation, Immune Response, Inflammation, Lymphocytes, Lymphoid Tumors, T Cell Development, T Cells, T Lymphocytes

Selin Somersan-Karakaya
Assistant professor of Medicine
Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Dendritic Cells, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Host-Pathogen Response, Macrophages, Mycobacteria, Nitrosative Stress, Oxidative Stress

Gregory Sonnenberg
Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology in Medicine
Medicine, Gastroenterologys
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Gut Microbiome, Human Health, Immunity, Immunotherapy, Inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Innate Immunity, Lymphatics, Microbiome, Microbiota, Mucosal Immunology, T Cells

Lydia Tesfa
Director, Flow Cytometry Facility; Associate Research Professor
Cornell Institute of Biotechnology
Boyce Thompson Institute, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, College of Engineering, College of Human Ecology, College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Infectious Disease, T Cells

Gerlinde Van de Walle
Associate Professor
Baker Institute for Animal Health
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Cancer, Cancer - Breast, Germ Cells, Host Range, Human Health, Pathogenesis, Stem Cells, Virus/Virology

Claire Vanpouille-Box
Assistant Professor
Radiation Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Cancer, Cancer - Breast, Cancer - Glioblastomas, Cell Signaling, Immune Checkpoint, Immune Response, Immunotherapy, Radiation, Signaling, Tgf-Beta Superfamily, Tumor Immunology

Timothy Vartanian
Professor
Brain and Mind Research Institute, Neurology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Multiple Sclerosis, Neurodegeneration, TLR

Yadong Wang
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering - Ithaca
Interests: Biomaterials, Cancer, Drug Delivery, Engineering, Heart, Immunoengineering

Andrew White
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Cancer, Cancer - Skin

Chris Xu
Professor
Applied & Engineering Physics
College of Engineering - Ithaca
Interests: Brain, Diagnostics, Fluorescence Methods, Imaging, Lymph Nodes

Andrew Yen
Professor
Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca
Interests: Cancer, Cell Biology, Cell Cycle Regulation, Cell Differentiation, Cell Signaling, Cell Therapy, Gene Regulation, Genetics / Genomics, Tumor Immunology

Melody Zeng
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical - New York City
Interests: Diet, Gut Microbiome, Human Health, Maternal & Child Health, Microbiome, Neonatal, Placenta, Pregnancy