DIRECTOR OF THE PROGRAMS:
Joel D. Oppenheim, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Dean for Biomedical Sciences

The Sackler Institute at NYU School of Medicine is a division of the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University, offering programs in the basic medical sciences leading to the Ph.D. degree and, in coordination with the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), combined M.D.-Ph.D. degrees. Students can do their thesis research in the laboratories of more than 170 faculty members at the NYU Medical Center who have appointments in basic science or clinical departments, with associated faculty located at the main campus (the Courant Institute, the Departments of Biology and Chemistry, and the Center for Neural Science), as well as with selected researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Interdisciplinary training is offered in 11 different programs: Biomedical Imaging, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Computational Biology (inter-university program), Develop-mental Genetics, Medical and Molecular Parasitology, Micro-biology, Molecular Oncology and Immunology, Molecular Pharma-cology and Signal Transduction, Neuroscience and Physiology, Pathobiology, and Structural Biology (in combination with the NIH Graduate Partnerships Program). Each program is individually administered with its own requirements. Students in most programs complete their doctoral training in five to six years and receive full funding throughout. The Sackler Institute does not offer any terminal master’s degree programs.

The Institute is the largest full-time Ph.D.-granting division of New York University, awarding more than 40 Ph.D. degrees each year. As of September 1, 2006, the Sackler Institute had approximately 230 Ph.D. and 76 M.D.-Ph.D. candidates enrolled, and it admits an average of 40 to 50 new students annually (approximately 40 to the Ph.D. program and 10 to the MST M.D.-Ph.D. program).

Faculty

Professors: Milton Adesnik, Leon Axel, Robert Baker, Dafna Bar-Sagi, Ross Basch, Claudio Basilico, Joel Belasco, Nina Bhardwaj, Thomas Blanck, Martin Blaser, Stewart Bloomfield, James A. Borowiec, Steven Burakoff, Steven Burden, Moses Chao, Mitchell Chesler, Nicholas Cowan, Pamela Cowin, Bruce N. Cronstein, Karen Day, Michael Dustin, Brian Dynlacht, Joel Ernst, Gordon Fishell, Edward Fisher, David Fishman, Glenn Fishman, Esther Gardner, Oded Gonen, Robert Grossman, Joseph Helpern, Dean E. Hillman, Daniel Javitt, Hannah L. Klein, Edwin Kolodny, Gert Kreibich, Anil Lalwani, Nathaniel Landau, Vivian Lee, Sylvia Lee-Huang, Ruth Lehmann, David E. Levy, Dan Littman, Rodolfo Llinás, Richard Margolis, Daniel Meruelo, Ralph Nixon, Richard P. Novick, Evgeny Nudler, Victor N. Nussenzweig, Joel D. Oppenheim, Seth Orlow, Harry Ostrer, Michele Pagano, Angel Pellicer, Mark R. Philips, Danny Reinberg, Maarten Reith, Daniel Rifkin, Margaret Rice, David Ron, Jack Rosenbluth, David Roth, Bernardo Rudy, David D. Sabatini, James L. Salzer, Herbert H. Samuels, Robert Schneider, Eric J. Simon, John I. Simpson, Edward Skolnik, Mutsuyuki Sugimori, Tung-Tien (Henry) Sun, George Teebor, Jan T. Vilcek, Thomas Wisniewski, Rui Ming Xu, Paul Witkovsky, Edward B. Ziff, Susan Zolla-Pazner.

Associate Professors: Peter Brooks, Stuart Brown, Jane Carlton, Kenneth Carr, Qun Chen, Allen B. Clarkson Jr., William Coetzee, Karen Duff, Daniel Eichinger, Ute Frevert-Clarkson, Alan B. Frey, Michael Garabedian, Jorge Ghiso, Leslie I. Gold, Bruce Hanna, George Holz, Jane Hubbard, Stevan Hubbard, Jens Jensen, Glyn Johnson, Xiangpeng Kong, Suman Laal, Juan Jose Lafaille, Efrat Levy, Paolo Mignatti, Moosa Mohammadi, Ian Mohr, Elizabeth Nardin, Elizabeth W. Newcomb, Thomas Neubert, Guillermo Perez-Perez, Tamar Schlick, Susan Smith, Frederick M. Stanley, David Stokes, Naoko Tanese, Jessica Treisman, Daniel Turnbull, Da-Neng Wang, Kerry Walton, Angus Wilson, E. Lynette Wilson, Lili Yamasaki, Deborah Yelon, Derya Unutmaz, David Zagzag.

Assistant Professors: Iannis Aifantis, Erika A. Bach, Richard Bonneau, Timothy Cardozo, Hearn Cho, Andrew Darwin, Jeremy Dasen, K. Heran Darwin, Ramanuj Dasgupta, Gregory David, Sandra Demaria, Irina Derkatch, Adrian Erlebacher, Hodaka Fujii, Wen-Biao Gan, Lawrence Gardner, Stephen Ginsberg, David Gutstein, Eva Hernando-Monge, Catarina Hioe, Kyonsoo Hong, Tony Huang, Matilde Inglese, Hung-Teh Kao, Yuval Kluger, Michelle Krogsgaard, J. Brandon Laflen, Eric Lang, Peng Lee, Susan Logan, Cindy Loomis, Alka Mansukhani, Paul Mathews, Gregory Morley, John Munger, Jeremy Nance, Phillipe Nyambi, Jayne Raper, Ana Rodriguez, Hyung Don Ryoo, Photini Sinnis, Jane Skok, Jesus Torres-Vazquez, Sergio Trombetta.