Faculty members who do not serve as dissertation mentors but who make contributions to the education of our students by teaching or serving as clinical mentors are appointed as Gerstner Sloan Kettering Special Contributing Faculty.
The following is a list of current members of the contributing faculty along with their research interests:
Becky R. Castillo
MBA, Texas Woman’s University
Compliance and Outreach
Research and Project Administration
Hironori Funabiki
PhD, Kyoto University
Cell Biology
Studies chromosome identity, architecture, and inheritance mechanisms.
Mary L. Keohan
MD, Yale University School of Medicine
Medicine
Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Richard P. Koche
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Epigenetic Research
Computational Epigenetics
Larry Norton
MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Medicine
Breast Cancer clinical trials, tumor growth kinetics, and mathematics of metastasis.
Jae H. Park
MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Medicine
Development of novel targeted therapy and application of immunotherapy in adult patients with hematologic malignancies.
Michael A. Postow
MD, New York University School of Medicine
Medicine
Melanoma medical oncologist with an interest in immunotherapeutic approaches to melanoma and associated biomarker analysis.
Eytan M. Stein
MD, Northwestern University Medical School
Medicine
Novel early phase therapeutics for actue myeloid leukemia, clinical trial design.
Agnes Viale
PhD, Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Genomics Core
Genomics: from microarrays to next generation sequencing.
James W. Young
MD, Vanderbilt University
Medicine
Human dendritic cells and the generation of immunity in cancer and transplantation.
Pat Zanzonico
PhD, Cornell University
Medical Physics
Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging research: hypoxia imaging, targeted radionuclide therapy, and small-animal imaging.