Principal Investigator
Ioannis Aifantis
Professor and Chair
Department of Pathology, NYU and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Luisa Cimmino
Assistant Professor
(PhD. Columbia University, USA, 2007)
Luisa is studying the role of epigenetics in stem cell quiescence, self-renewal, and leukemia.
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Maria Guillamot
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D. 2012, Centro National de Investigaciones Oncologicas, Madrid, Spain)
Maria is studying the impact of the Ubiquitin system in cancer stem cell function.
Hsuan-Ting Huang
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D. Harvard University, USA, 2012)
Emily is studying lncRNAs in acute myeloid leukemia
Beatriz Aranda-Orgilles
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Max Plank Institute for Molecular
Genetics, Berlin, Germany, 2006
Beatriz is developing proteomics approaches and tools to study the role of the ubiquitin system in hematopoiesis and stem cell function.
Shannon Buckley
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota, USA, 2009)
Shannon is probing the functions of members of the ubiquitin system in
stem cell differentiation.
Panagiotis Ntziachristos
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D. University of Athens, 2009)
Panagiotis is working on the role of chromatin in the induction and maintenance of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Jasper Mullenders
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(PhD from Ultrech University)
Jasper is identifying potential drug targets in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia by functional genomics
Anastasia Tikhonova
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2011)
Anastasia is studying the role of Notch pathway in the regulation of hematopoiesis
Nikos Kourtis
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(Ph.D. 2011 University of Crete, Greece),
Nikos is studying novel mechanisms of histone regulation in stem cell function.
Philmo Oh
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Resident – Radiation Oncology
(M.D., Ph.D., NYU School of Medicine, USA, 2013)
Philmo is working in collaboration with Dr. Silvia Formenti to examine the regulation of systemic anti-tumor immunity by the tumor microenvironment.
Francesco Boccalatte
Post-Doctoral Fellow
(PhD, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, 2014)
Graduate Students
Alexandros Strikoudis
Graduate student NYU
(B.Sc. University of Thessaly, Greece, 2006)
Alexandros is studying the role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in stem cells.
Thomas Trimarchi
Graduate Student, NYU
(B.Sc. University of Vermont, USA, 2006)
Thomas is working on Notch signaling and T cell leukemia.
Yoon Sing Yap
B.S. 2009 SUNY Buffalo
Yoon is studying the epigenetic regulation of leukemia initiation and progression.
Harris Lazaris
Graduate Student, NYU
(M.Sc. University of Edinburgh, UK, 2012)
Bioinformatics analysis of genome organization and function.
Victor Ng
Medical Student, NYU
(M.Sc. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2011)
Victor is studying epigenetic regulation in myeloid leukemia.
Research Technicians
Sofia Bakogianni
Research Technician
B.Sc. University of Crete, Greece, 2012
Sophia is studying chromosomal dynamics in acute leukemia
Clarisse Kayembe
Research Technician
(BA. 2012, Hunter college)
Clarisse is organizing our animal colonies.
Hai Hu
Research Technician
Jingjing Wang
Research Technician
Ph.D. Peking University, China, 2011
Jingjing focuses on identification of regulators of Myc protein stability.
Kun Wang
Research Technician
University of China
Kun is organizing our animal colonies.
Bioinformaticians
Aristotelis Tsirigos
Faculty Member
(Ph.D. 2006, New York University)
Lab Manager
Kamala Bhatt
Lab Manager/Senior Research Technician
(B.A. 2012 Hunter College),
Kamala is organizing our animal colonies and performs screens to identify novel leukemia tumor suppressors
Administration
