Current Clinical Scholars
Juan Angulo-Lozano, MD
Mentor: Jeffrey V. Ravetch, MD, PhD
Lab: Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology
Email: jangulo@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Angulo-Lozano’s research interest is investigating the immunologic interactions and tumor microenvironment changes in prostate and bladder cancer and their response to different antibody-based therapies (ABT). His research project will focus on testing novel immunotherapies and combinations for the treatment of early-stage bladder cancers and how the Fc-domain of ABTs affects tumor immunity.
Bio: Dr. Angulo-Lozano received his MD from the Universidad Anahuac Norte in Mexico City. He previously was a postdoctoral research associate in the Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology.
Tamar Berger, MD
Mentor: Agata Smogorzewska, MD, PhD
Lab: Laboratory of Genome Maintenance
Email: tberger@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Berger’s research interests are the epidemiology of hematological malignancies and biomarkers characterization for early cancer detection.
Current Research Project Title: Detection of Pre-Malignant Changes in Fanconi anemia Mucosa
Bio: Dr. Berger received her MD and MHA from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva, Israel. Dr. Berger completed her internal medicine residency and Hematology fellowship at Rabin Medical Center in Israel. Dr. Berger served as a senior Hemato-oncologist at Rabin Medical Center, Davidoff Cancer Center, focusing on treating patients with plasma cell disorders.
Laura Berneking, MD, PhD
Mentor: Jeremy Rock, PhD
Lab: Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Biology
Email: lberneking@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Berneking’s research focuses on understanding host-pathogen interactions and epigenetic modifications underlying trained immunity in response to Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infection/vaccination. Her project aims to uncover the mechanisms of BCG-induced trained immunity, exploring epigenetic modifications affecting innate immune traits, inflammatory regulation, and myelopoiesis
Bio: Dr. Berneking received her MD-PhD from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany and completed her residency in infectious diseases.
Barbara Bosch, MD, PhD
Mentors: Seth A. Darst, PhD and Elizabeth Campbell, PhD
Lab: Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics
Email: bbosch@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Bosch’s research interest is microbiology, particularly mycobacteria, focusing on microbial physiology and genetics. Her research project aims to visualize and understand the regulation of the transcriptional process using a combination of genetic, biochemical, and structural techniques.
Current Research Project Title: Assessing Novel Compounds against Mycobacterial Pathogens within Infected Human Cacrophages
Bio: Dr. Bosch received her MD from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and PhD from Rockefeller University. She completed the junior years of pediatric residency at the University Hospitals Louvain in Belgium.
Nicolas Gomez Banoy, MD
Mentor: Paul Cohen, MD, PhD
Lab: Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism
Email: rkimani@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Gomez Banoy’s research interest is focused on unraveling the mechanisms behind obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. His current research project will focus on understanding the genetic and pharmacologic determinants of brown adipose tissue (BAT) in adult humans, with the ultimate goal of harnessing thermogenic adipocytes to treat cardiometabolic diseases.
Current Research Project Title: Genetic Determinants of Brown Adipose Tissue Activity
Bio: Dr. Gomez Banoy received his MD from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota, Colombia. He then did a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr James Lo at Weill Cornell Medicine studying pancreatic islet biology. Dr. Gomez Banoy completed his Internal Medicine residency at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is currently an Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism fellow at the joint Weill Cornell Medicine/Memorial Sloan Kettering program.
Xiaojing Huang, MD, PhD
Mentor: Paul Cohen, MD, PhD
Lab: Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism
Email: xhuang01@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Huang’s research interests are systems biology and the interaction between adipose tissue and cancer.
Current Research Project Title: Proteomic Signatures of Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Metastatic Sarcoma
Bio: Dr. Huang received her MD and PhD from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She completed an internal medicine internship at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and a radiation oncology residency at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Matthew Kudelka, MD, PhD
Mentor: Elaine Fuchs, PhD
Lab: Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development
Email: mkudelka@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Kudelka’s research interest is studying post-translational modifications in health and disease and developing novel cancer therapies..
Current Research Project Title: Anti-glycan Antibody Responses to Immunotherapy in Melanoma
Bio: Dr. Kudelka received his MD and PhD from the Emory University School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell. Dr. Kudelka is currently doing his Medical Oncology/Research Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Jongeun Lee, MD
Mentor: James Krueger, MD, PhD
Lab: Laboratory of Investigative Dermatology
Email: jlee04@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Lee’s research interest is establishing tolerance/immune control mechanisms mediated by regulatory cell populations in human skin. Her research project will focus on studying transcriptional profiles, spatial organization, and functions of regulatory cell populations.
Bio: Dr. Lee received her MD from Kyungpook National University School of Medicine in South Korea and completed her residency in dermatology at the Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine in South Korea.
Andre Moraes Nicola, MD, PhD
Mentors: Michel Nussenzweig, MD, PhD & Marina Caskey, MD
Lab: Laboratory of Molecular Immunology
Email: amoraesnicola@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Nicola’s research interest is developing monoclonal antibodies to treat infectious diseases. He is part of a team conducting phase 1 clinical trials with monoclonal antibodies to HIV and the hepatitis B virus. Additionally, he is studying the effect of these immunotherapies on the study participants’ immune responses.
Bio: Dr. Nicola earned his MD-PhD from the University of Brasilia, Brazil. He has postdoctoral experience in microbiology and immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. He is also a faculty member at the University of Brasilia, Brazil, from which he is on leave to participate in the Clinical Scholars program.
Koji Nakajima, MD
Mentor: Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD
Lab: St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases
Email: knakajima@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Nakajima’s research interest is deciphering the age-dependent dynamics governing inflammatory response following infections and help to provide better treatment for the patients. Research project: Identifying the genetic cause and molecular mechanism of MIS-C (Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children) and Kawasaki Disease.
Bio: Dr. Nakajima’s received his MD from Kyoto University in Japan. He completed his internal medicine internship at Tenri Yorozu Hospital and his pediatric residency at Kyoto University Hospital in Japan.
Neil M. Neumann, MD, PhD
Mentor: Sohail F. Tavazoie, MD, PhD
Lab: Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology
Email: nneumann@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Neumann’s research interest is to understand how a patient’s germline genetics influence melanoma invasion and metastasis, specifically focusing on the role of the APOE axis and its variants. His goal is to discover unknown molecular mechanisms used by aggressive cutaneous cancers in order to develop novel, anti-metastatic therapeutics.
Bio: Dr. Neumann received his MD-PhD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Anatomic Pathology at University of California, San Francisco, followed by Dermatopathology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Ryan Q. Notti, MD, PhD
Mentors: Thomas Walz, PhD
Lab: Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy
Email: rnotti@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Notti’s research interest is studying structural biochemical approaches to approach the fundamental question in oncology and design new therapeutics with a focus on the treatment of sarcomas.
Current Research Project Title: A Pilot Study of Molecular Dynamics Simulation for the Prediction of Rare T-Cell Receptor Variant Phenotypes
Bio: Dr. Notti received his MD from Weill Cornell Medical College and PhD from Rockefeller University. Dr. Notti completed his internal medicine residency at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell.
Amihai Rottenstreich, MD
Mentor: Barry S. Coller, MD
Lab: Allen and Frances Adler Laboratory of Blood and Vascular Biology
Email: arottenstr@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Rottenstreich’s research interest focuses on the issue of obstetric hematology.
Current Research Project Title: Genetic, Laboratory, and Clinical Factors Associated with Low-Dose Aspirin Failure In the Prevention of Preeclampsia
Bio: Dr. Rottenstreich received his MD from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. Dr. Rottenstreich completed his residency in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Leon L. Seifert, MD, PhD
Mentor: Charles Rice, PhD
Lab: Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease
Email: lseifert@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Seifert’s research interests are liver diseases and liver cirrhosis. He is particularly focused on the hepatitis b infection, a viral disease that affects ~250 million people worldwide.
Current Research Project Title: In vivo Hepatitis B virus launch from Patient-derived HBV DNA: A Novel Method to Study Patient-Specific Virus Diversity
Bio: Dr. Seifert received his MD from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in Germany. He completed the residency program in internal medicine and gastroenterology at University Hospital Münster.
Mai Takahashi, MD, MPH
Mentor: Sohail Tavazoie, MD, PhD
Lab: Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology
Email: mtakahashi@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Takahashi’s Mai’s research interest is the molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis and exploring potential key genes associated with disease progression. Her research project will focus on the biological understanding of signaling pathways on pancreatic cancer and colon cancer metastasis and its therapeutic targeting
Bio: Dr. Takahashi’s received her MD from Chiba University, Faculty of Medicine, Chiba, Japan and MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Dr. Takahashi completed general medicine residency at Saku Central Hospital, Nagano, Japan, and internal medicine residency at Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York.
Zijun Wang, MD, PhD
Mentor: Michel Nussenzweig, MD, PhD
Lab: Laboratory of Molecular Immunology
Email: zwang03@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Wang’s research interest is the evolution of antibody responses to virus infection and vaccination, which includes SARS-CoV-2, HIV-1, and HBV.
Current Research Project Title: Characterization of the HBV-Specific T-Cell responses in Chronic HBV infection
Bio: Dr. Wang received her MD and PhD from Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University in China. She completed the dermatology residency program at Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University.
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Shin-Rong (Julia) Wu, MD, PhD
Mentor: Sidney Strickland, PhD
Lab: Patricia and John Rosenwald Laboratory of Neurobiology and Genetics
Email: swu01@rockefeller.edu
Research Interest: Dr. Wu’s research interest focuses on how the immune and blood clotting systems interact to maintain homeostasis in health and to affect organ damage in disease. Her research project seeks to understand how peripheral blood components, encompassing both cellular populations and plasma proteins, contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
Current Research Project Title: Investigating the Impact of Inflammation on Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) Expression in the Hematopoietic Compartment
Bio: Dr. Wu received her MD and PhD from the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Wu completed her internal medicine residency at New York-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is currently doing her Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at New York-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medical Center.