The name of each faculty member is linked to a more detailed description of that person's research interests.


Core Faculty

Faculty Member E-mail Location Phone
Riccardo Dalla-Favera
Uris Professor and Director
rd10@columbia.edu ICRC 508A 212-851-5273
Molecular genetics of cancer; molecular pathogenesis of lymphoma and leukemia; genetic control in lymphoid tissue development.

Richard Baer
Professor
rb670@columbia.edu ICRC 503A 212-851-5275
Molecular biology of breast cancer; biological functions of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumor suppressors

Adolfo Ferrando
Assistant Professor
af2196@columbia.edu ICRC 505A 212-851-4611

NOTCH1 in T-cell development and transformation; targeted therapies in T-ALL


Jean Gautier
Associate Professor
jg130@columbia.edu ICRC 603A 212-851-4564
Maintenance of genome stability: DNA replication and response to DNA damage

Wei Gu
Professor
wg8@columbia.edu ICRC 609A 212-851-5282
P53 in tumor suppression and aging; acetylation and deacetylation of p53 in tumorigenesis; mammalian Sir2a in stress response and aging; ubiquitination and deubiquitination in the regulation of p53 stability

Antonio Iavarone
Associate Professor
ai2102@columbia.edu ICRC 407B
212-851-5245
Molecular genetics of tumors derived from the nervous system. The role of Id proteins in cell cycle regulation and differentiation

Anna Lasorella
Assistant Professor
al2179@columbia.edu ICRC 405
212-851-5240
Molecular biology of pediatric tumors. The Rb-Id2 pathway in development and cancer

Thomas Ludwig
Assistant Professor
tl54@columbia.edu ICRC 1001A 212-851-5234
Molecular functions of breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2; mouse models of mammary tumorigenesis.

Ramon Parsons
Professor

rep15@columbia.edu

ICRC 407A
212-851-5278
PTEN tumor suppressor gene mutated in a variety of cancers to determine its role in regulating tumor growth

Benjamin Tycko
Professor

bt12@columbia.edu

ICRC 606 212-851-5280
Molecular biological studies on genomic imprinting in human and mouse systems; molecular genetics of pediatric tumors; molecular genetics of Alzheimer's disease

Affiliated Faculty

Faculty Member E-mail Location Phone

Andrea Califano califano@dbmi.columbia.edu ICRC 912 212-851-5183
Professor bioinformatics and computational biology    

Argiris Efstratiadis
Professor

ae4@columbia.edu

RBP 608 212-851-5237
Role of growth factors in mammalian embryogenesis and tumorigenesis; mouse models of human diseases, including cancer; mechanism of parental imprinting; physical mapping of human chromosome 13

Jan Kitajewski
Associate Professor

jkk9@columbia.edu

PS 16-419 212-305-3624
Wnt and Notch genes in tumorigenesis and vascular development

Vundavalli Murty
Assistant Professor
vvm2@columbia.edu ICRC 605B 212-851-4621
Genetic basis of male germ cell tumors and carcinoma of cervix uteri; cytogenetic and molecular cytogenetic methods in diagnosis and prognosis of cancer

Rodney Rothstein
Professor

rothstein@cancercenter.columbia.edu

HHSC 1608 212-305-1733
Control of genome stability; functional genomics; yeast as a model for human disease; yeast genetics; mechanisms of genetic recombination