Ph. D. Program in Chemical Biology
Faculty in the TPCB span several areas of chemical biology, including Bio-Organic, Biophysical, Analytical and Biological Chemistry
GRADUATE FACULTY ROSTER
(Updated: 2/17/13)
Bio-Organic Chemistry
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Sean Brady , Ph.D. The Rockefeller University Genetically encoded small molecules |
Jacob Banik (graduated) Debjani Chakraborty Hala Iqbal |
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Shiubing Chen, Ph.D Weill Cornell Medical College Stem cell and chemical biology |
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Gabriela Chiosis, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Design of novel chemotherapeutics |
Kamalika Moulick (graduated) |
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Samuel Danishefsky, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Syntheses of antitumor and anti-infective natural products |
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Howard Hang , Ph.D. The Rockefeller University Development of new chemical tools for studying protein lipidation and glycosilation |
Guillaume Charron (graduated) Paul Dossa Xiaoqiu Yuan |
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Tarun Kapoor, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University Chemistry and cell biology |
Alejandro Dottore Ulf Peters (graduated) Lei Tan (graduated) |
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Minkui Luo, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Protein post-translational modification and inhibitor design |
Gil Blum Ian Bothwell Han Guo |
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Anthony Sauve, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Chemistry of ADP-ribosyltransferases and NAD |
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Derek Tan, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Diversity-oriented synthesis and rational drug design |
Renato Bauer (graduated) Justin Cisar (graduated) Sirkka Moilanen (graduated) Christopher Stratton (graduated) Jacqueline Wurst (graduated) |
Biological Chemistry & Biochemistry
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C. David Allis, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University Histone methylation and the histone code |
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Jochen Buck, M.D./Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Biology of soluble adenylyl cyclases |
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Lewis Cantley, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Biochemical pathways of cell growth and transformation |
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Lorraine Gudas, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Retinoid pharmacology |
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Morgan Huse, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Chemical Biology of lymphocyte signalling |
Thinh Nguyen Duc |
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Samie Jaffrey, M.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Neuronal signal transduction and chemical biology |
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Yueming Li, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Biology of transmembrane proteases |
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Luciano Marraffini , Ph.D. The Rockefeller University Bacteriology; mechanisms that prevent horizontal gene transfer |
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Timothy McGraw, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Biology of glucose transporter biology and type II diabetes |
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Anant Menon, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Trafficking of membrane lipids; protein lipidation and glycosylation |
Sumana Sanyal (graduated) |
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Gavril Pasternak , M.D./Ph.D. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Neuroscience; opioid receptors and pharmacology |
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Neal Rosen, M.D./Ph.D. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Mechanism-based therapeutic strategies for cancer |
Nen Pagano |
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Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University Neurophysiology and behavior; innate and adaptive animal neural circuits |
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David Scheinberg , M.D./Ph.D. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Molecular pharmacology & chemistry; targeted immunotherapies |
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Stewart Shuman, M.D./Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Nucleic acid metabolism | Anupam Chakravarty Ushati Das Ruchi Jain (graduated) Niroshika Monerawila Keppetipola (graduated) J.K. Nandakumar (graduated) Poulami Samai (graduated) |
Bio-Analytical Chemistry
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Brian Chait, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University Mass spectrometery and gaseous ion chemistry |
Jeff DeGrasse (graduated) Roman Subbotin |
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Daniel Heller, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Nanochemistry for molecular sensors and targeted therapeutics |
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Paul Tempst, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Targeted proteomics |
Computational Chemistry & Biology
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John Chodera, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute |
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Stanislas Leibler, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University Physical processes in living systems |
Doeke Hekstra (graduated) |
Biophysical Chemistry
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Olaf Andersen, M.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Molecular mechanisms of ion channels |
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Scott Blanchard, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Single-molecule studies protein synthesis |
Richa Dave (graduated) Angelica Ferguson Carlos Rico |
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Seth Darst, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University Structural aspects of transcription |
Jesse Hauver |
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David Eliezer, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Biological role of non-native protein structure |
Nicholas Harbison (graduated) |
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Jonathan Goldberg, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Structural studies of vesicle transport and DNA Repair |
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Chris Lima, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Structural basis of protein sumoylation and RNA stability |
Jaclyn Greimann (graduated) Firaz Mohideen (graduated) J.K. Nandakumar (graduated) |
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Stephen Long, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Structural and mechanistic studies of of ion channels and membrane-embedded enzymes |
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Fred Maxfield, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Biophysical chemistry of membrane traffic |
David Iaea |
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Roderick MacKinnon, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University Structure and function of ion channels and associated regulatory proteins |
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Dimitar Nikolov, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Structural biology of signaling in the nervous system |
Nikhil Singla (graduated) |
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Crina Nimigean, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Ion channel structure and mechanism |
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Dinshaw Patel, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Structural biology of nucleic acids and nucleic acid binding proteins |
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Nikola Pavletich, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute Structural biology of the cell cycle |
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Alexandros Pertsinidis, Ph.D Sloan-Kettering Institute Single-molecule and single-cell studies of gene regulation |
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Timothy Ryan, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College Physical chemistry of the synapse |
Vidhya Rangaraju |
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Erec Stebbins, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University Structural microbiology |
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Tom Sakmar, M.D. The Rockefeller University Molecular mechanisms of transmembrane signaling |
Sourabh Banerjee (graduated) Amy Grunbeck Neeraj Kapoor (graduated) Carlos Rico He Tian |