Associate Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Principle Investigator: Robert Schwartz, M.D. / Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology, Weill Cornell College of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University
My career goal as an independent physician scientist investigator in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology, biomedical engineering, stem cell, and regenerative medicine is to build and translate ideas and discoveries in the laboratory to the clinic. My work has involved the development of new stem cell techniques and model systems with the goal to better understand human disease and to develop new clinical treatments. My work has led to 87 publications. My group was the first group to leverage human stem cell-based cell or tissue platforms for the study of infectious disease and we have shown that it can be leveraged to study a variety of different pathogen infections. I have focused on its use in hepatotropic pathogens (hepatitis B and C viral infection and plasmodium falcipirum), neurotropic pathogens (Zika virus, CMV, and HSV), and respiratory pathogens including SARS-CoV-2.