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NYSCF’s Medical Advisory Board comprises an internationally renowned roster of scientists, researchers and heads of the Northeast’s pre-eminent medical institutions. We are privileged to count among our MAB Board, both Nobel Laureates and the leading stem cell researchers in the country. NYSCF’s MAB members advise the Foundation on a range of issues, including priorities for NYSCF’s safe haven labs and the awarding of grants to scientists doing translational stem cell research within their own facilities.
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Assistant Professor, Pathology, Cell Biology and Neurology, the Taub Institute for Aging, Columbia University.
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Professor and Head of Laboratory, Laboratory of Molecular Embryology at The Rockefeller University.
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Inaugural recipient of The Johns Hopkins Family Professorship in Oncology Research and Vice Dean for Research of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Van Dang oversees the Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering and is a Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Oncology, and Cell Biology with joint appointment in Molecular Biology and Genetics.
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Professor and Vice-Chair in the Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, Physiology and Cell and Molecular Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Dawson is also Director of Neurobiology of Disease in the Department of Neurology, and Director of Neuroregeneration and Stem Cell Programs in the Institute for Cell Engineering at Johns Hopkins.
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Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. Dr. Eggan is currently leading a research group investigating mechanisms regulating epigenetic reprogramming after SCNT and using nuclear transfer techniques to derive disease specific stem cell lines from diabetic and Parkinson’s patients.
MacArthur Fellow 2006
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Scientific Director of the Simons Foundation Autism Project. Dr. Fischbach is also Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Emeritus, and John E. Borne Professor, at Columbia University.
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Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology & Development, The Rockefeller University. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a Penn Inegrates Knowledge Professor. Dr. Gearhart is also the James W. Effron University Professor at Penn.
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Founder and co-director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medical Center. An Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia, Dr. Goland also leads a clinical research program in diabetes.
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Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. A member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Dr. Goldman is also President of the Association of Professors of Medicine and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., MD, DPhil
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Suzanne and Stephen Weiss Dean of Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is also Professor of Medicine and Provost for Medical Affairs at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, a former President of the American Heart Association, former President of the International Atherosclerosis Society and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, New York University. Attending Physician, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tisch Hospital.
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Former President, The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and former Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Jessell’s lab examines how neurons in the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS) are generated and interconnected, focusing on circuits formed between sensory and motor neurons in the spinal cord.
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Director of the McEwan Center for Regerative Medicine University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
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Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Director of the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology at NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Lehmann, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Science, is Professor of Developmental Genetics at NYU School of Medicine.
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Co-Director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University, a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine and head of the Division of Molecular Genetics at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Leibel is also Deputy Director of the New York Obesity Research Center.
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Professor of Gene and Cell Medicine at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
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Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology and Professor of Pathology and Microbiology at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Littman directs the Molecular Pathogenesis program in the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at the NYU Medical Center.
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Professor of Cell Biology and Directo of the Yale Stem Cell Center at the Yale School of Medicine
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Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chairman of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor in the Natural Sciences at Harvard, co-director of Harvard’s Center for Genomic Research and co-director of the new Harvard Institute for Stem Cell Research. Dr. Melton received the Lounsberry Medal from the National Academy of Sciences and the Joslin Medal in 2003.
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Professor of Genetics, Neurobiology and Anatomy at University of Rochester Medical Center and co-director of the New York Center of Research Excellence in Spinal Cord Injury. Dr. Noble’s laboratory works broadly in the field of stem cell research and stem cell medicine, including such areas as cell discovery, signaling pathway dissection, oxidative regulation, developmental maladies, toxicology and cancer research.
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President of The Rockefeller University. Dr. Nurse won the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for his work characterizing the cell
cycle in yeast. He also received the Lasker Award in 1998 and the
General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize and
Medal in 1997.
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President and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Pardes has also been Vice-President for Health Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Dr. Pardes served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and as U.S. Assistant Surgeon General during the Carter and Reagan Administrations.
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Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Director of the Ansary Stem Cell Center for Regenerative Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Rafii is also the Arthur Belfer Professor of Genetic Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell.
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Director of Translational Medicine at the Harvard University Stem Cell Institute.
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Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Dr. Spiegel is a widely renowned physician-scientist and endocrinologist with extensive experience in translational research who previously served as the Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
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Associate Member of the Developmental Biology Program and Division of
Neurosurgery at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.
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Scientific Director of the New York Neural Stem Cell Institute and
Professor of Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at Albany Medical College.
MacArthur Fellow 2008.
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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University
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Harold Varmus, MD (Emeritus)
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President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Co-Chair, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Dr.Varmus received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1989 for his studies of the genetic basis of cancer. From 1983 to 1999, Dr.Varmus served as Director of the National Institutes of Health.
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* Member, NYSCF Medical Advisory Board Executive Committee
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