Home  About Us NYSCF Team
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Susan L. Solomon (Chief Executive Officer)
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 Susan L. Solomon is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF), a non-profit organization established in 2005 to accelerate stem cell research to cure the major diseases of our time. A longtime health-care advocate, Ms. Solomon is a founding member of NYAMR (New Yorkers for the Advancement of Medical Research) and the New York Council for the Joslin Diabetes Center, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, New York Chapter, since 1994. Additionally, Ms. Solomon serves on the Government Affairs Committee for the International Society for Stem Cell Research. Ms. Solomon was integral to the establishment of the Empire State Stem Cell Trust and is a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Empire State Stem Cell Board. In March 2008, Ms. Solomon received a New York State Women of Excellence Award from State Governor David A. Paterson. In September 2008, she received the Triumph Award from the Brooke Ellison Foundation...
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Kevin Eggan, PhD (Chief Scientific Officer)
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 Kevin Eggan became NYSCF’s Chief Scientific Officer in 2006 and is a founding member of NYSCF's Medical Advisory Board. He is Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and a Principal Investigator of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Dr. Eggan is also an Assistant Investigator of the Stowers Medical Institute and a MacArthur Fellow.
In 2008, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Bush. He is a 2006 MacArthur Fellow.
After receiving his PhD in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Eggan went to Harvard University as a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.
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Jennifer Becht (Research Coordinator)
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Jennifer joins NYSCF with experience in protocol development and clinical research support. She came to us from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center where she was a Senior Protocol Development Coordinator in the Office of Clinical Research. Previously, she was a research assistant in the Department of Breast Surgery (also at MSKCC). She has a BS in Biology from Fordham University.
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Medora Falkenberg (Director of External Relations)
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 Missy Falkenberg joined the NYSCF team in February 2007 as the Director of External Relations. She came to us from Parsons The New School for Design, where she was the Associate Director of Development and a Major Gifts Officer for five years. Previously, she worked at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution and Museums Magazines. She received a Masters Degree in Arts Administration from Teachers College - Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Georgia.
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Amelia Granger (Development Assistant)
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 Amelia Granger graduated in 2008 from The New School University with a BA in Liberal Arts. She comes to NYSCF with experience working as a reporter for the Greenpoint Gazette and as an aide at Project Greenthumb, a part of the NYC Parks Department. She was a NYSCF intern from September to December 2008, and previously interned at Flavorpill Productions, Astralwerks Records, and Insound.com.
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Jurawa Hallen (Events Associate)
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 Jurawa joins NYSCF with experience in events and marketing through his work with Jamestown Entertainment in Washington DC and the Knitting Factory in New York. He earned a BA in Philosophy from the George Washington University and has spent time studying and volunteering abroad in Italy, New Zealand and South America.
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Kacey Koeppel (Director of Events)
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 Kacey Koeppel joined the NYSCF team in January 2008 as the Director of Special Events. She came to us from The Rockefeller University, where she was Senior Events Planner in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs. She previously worked at Tractenberg & Co., a public relations firm specializing in beauty and cosmetics. She has a BA from Manhattan College.
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Caroline Marshall (Program Director)
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 Caroline is a stem cell biologist with extensive research experience in the fields of hematopoietic, neural and embryonic stem cells. Prior to relocating to the USA in 2007, she ran a research project at the Wolfson Centre for Gene Therapy, University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in the UK (1996-2006). Her research focused on how blood cells are formed in human embryos and the identification of molecular pathways that could be used in the treatment of disease. She has a keen interest in the ethical and social issues surrounding stem cell research and the promotion of communication between scientists, government and public.
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David McKeon (Research Assistant to the CEO)
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 David McKeon joined the NYSCF team in June 2009 as the Research Assistant to the CEO after graduating from Tufts University with a degree in Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering. He had worked at NYSCF as a summer intern in 2008. At Tufts, he was the captain and MVP of the varsity soccer team.
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Candace Morgan (Senior Development Associate)
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 Candace comes to NYSCF with experience as a corporate paralegal at Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP and in the development department at the William J. Clinton Foundation in New York. She has an MA in Modern Art Theory from Columbia University and a BA in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She participated in study abroad programs in Paris, London, Prague, Bologna, and Rome.
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Lee Rubin, PhD (Scientific Advisor)
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 Dr. Rubin has served as NYSCF’s Scientific Advisor since January 2008, leading planning and implementation of drug discovery capabilities in the NYSCF Lab. Since 2006, he has been Director of Translational Medicine at the Harvard University Stem Cell Institute and is a member of the new Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. Much of his effort is devoted to identifying therapeutics for orphan neural disorders such as Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Huntington’s Disease and multiple sclerosis.
He received his PhD in Neuroscience from The Rockefeller University (RU), held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine and an Assistant and Associate Professorship at RU. He led the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and multiple sclerosis groups at Athena Neurosciences (now Elan Pharmaceuticals) where he identified a molecule that has been approved for treatment of multiple sclerosis and more recently, for Crohn’s disease. After leaving Athena, he became Professor of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London and Director of the Eisai London Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease. In 1998, he became Chief Scientific Officer of Ontogeny, Inc (now Curis, Inc) a biotechnology company in Cambridge, MA,) working on molecular pathways involved in cancer and neurodegenerative disease.
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Kristin Smith (Program Assistant)
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 Kristin Smith joined the NYSCF team in December of 2009 as the Program Assistant after graduating from Yale University with a degree in History of Science, History of Medicine. At Yale, Kristin completed her senior thesis on the historical role of philanthropy in stem cell research. She also interned at NYSCF in development and fundraising during the summer of 2008.
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Chris Todd (Digital Outreach and IT Manager)
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 Chris has been with NYSCF since 2006. A graduate of City College of New York with a BA in music composition, he writes musical theatre and is an accomplished pianist and arranger. Besides music, he has always been passionate about science and is fulfilled by his contribution to NYSCF's important work.
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Scott Noggle (Director of the NYSCF Laboratory)
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 Scott A. Noggle, PhD, Principal Investigator of NYSCF’s scientific team, is conducting research at NYSCF’s state-of-the-art laboratory and also serves as a technical and scientific resource to other researchers working in the laboratory. He has been appointed an Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in Pediatrics – Molecular Genetics at Columbia University. Scott previously managed the Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Initiative’s Derivation Core facility at The Rockefeller University for the past two years. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Ali H. Brivanlou at The Rockefeller University studying the signaling pathways that maintain pluripotency and control neural induction in hESCs. He received his PhD from the Medical College of Georgia and his BS and MS from the University of Arkansas – Fayetteville.
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Faizzan Ahmad (Research Technician)
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 Faizzan comes to NYSCF with two years of experience working with Embryonic Stem Cells jointly in the labs of Dr. Stewart Anderson from Weill Cornell Medical College and Dr. Lorenz Studer from Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center where he studied the directed differentiation of embryonic stem cells towards specific interneuron fates. He received a BA in Biology from the City University of New York at Queens College. He’s been extensively trained in the laboratory setting working at various labs during his undergraduate years at Vanderbilt University where he worked with Dr. Randy Blakely studying acetylcholine reuptake via the choline transporter protein and then later went on to Dr. R. Daniel Beauchamp’s lab studying the requirement of smad4 in TGFbeta induced epithelial to mesenchymal transdifferentiation (EMT). He’s also had stints with nationally renowned neurosurgeon Dr. John Boockvar at Weill Cornell studying neural stem cell motility and Dr. David Sassoon at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine studying muscle development. His current interests lie in developing efficient techniques for iPS cell generation as well as directing the differentiation of hESC’s and iPSC’s towards certain neuronal populations in order to develop cell-based therapies and cellular models to study brain disorders.
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Lauren Bauer (Lab Manager)
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 Lauren comes to NYSCF with administrative experience and two years in the Lykke-Andersen Lab in the Department of MCD Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She received a BA cum laude in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She also participated in a study abroad program in Perugia, Italy.
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Dieter Egli (Senior Research Fellow)
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 Dr. Egli also has been appointed as a Research Scientist in Pedriatics & Molecular Genetics at Columbia University, in the group of Dr. Rudolf Leibel. He received his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and until recently, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Kevin Eggan at the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, studying reprogramming after nuclear transfer. His interest includes the generation of therapeutically relevant cells.
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Haiqing Hua (Post-Doctoral fellow)
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 Haiqing Hua, PhD, joined NYSCF in 2009. He has also been appointed as a Post-Doctoral fellow in Pedriatics & Molecular Genetics at Columbia University, in the group of Dr. Rudolf Leibel. He received his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His interests include the generation of patient-specific stem cells and ß-cell differentiation.
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David Kahler (Research Scientist)
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 David J. Kahler, PhD, manages the NYSCF laboratory and provides technical and scientific support to facility users. He operates the cell sorter and works closely with NYSCF laboratory users in designing and optimizing protocols for sorting fragile stem cell populations. He received his PhD in Molecular Medicine and Immunology from the Medical College of Georgia in the lab of Andrew Mellor where he studied the phenotype, function, and lineage of a rare subset of immunomodulatory dendritic cells found in humans and mice. He obtained dual BS degrees in Paper Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle. He worked as a process engineer for Kimberly-Clark and Weyerhaeuser and as a scanning and transmission electron microscopist in an environmental and materials testing laboratory.
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Hector Martinez (Research Technician)
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Hector Martinez joined the NYSCF team in November 2009. He came to us from The Rockefeller University, where he worked with Noble Laureate Dr. Paul Greengard studying the components of the signal transduction cascade responsible for the regulation of Amyloid precursor protein breakdown and the formation of Aβ, with the aim of developing new targets for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. His current interests lie in the generation of patient-specific stem cells that allow modeling of human genetic diseases in vitro with the hope to provide cell based therapies that are suited to clinical application.
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Andrew Sproul (Post-Doctoral Associate)
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 Andrew Sproul, PhD, joined NYSCF in early 2010. His current research focuses on the use of iPS and ES cells to study Alzheimer’s Disease. He received his PhD from Columbia University, where he studied neuronal cell death in the laboratory of Dr. Lloyd Greene. Before starting at NYSCF, he did a short postdoc researching neurogenesis in the laboratory of Dr. Sergei Sokol at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Prior to graduate school, he worked for four years in bacterial research, including three in the laboratory of Sir Hans Kornberg at Boston University, where he studied the evolution of novel fructose metabolic pathways. In his spare time he enjoys practicing kung fu and cooking.
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