Membership

Leadership

Membership

  • Abdullah Ali, PhD

    • Director of Translational Research Laboratory, MDS Center
    • Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine) at CUMC
  • Elham Azizi, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research (in the Herbert and Florence Institute for Cancer Dynamics and in the Herbert
  • Lei Ding, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine
    • Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
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  • Vincenzo Alessandro Gennarino, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Genetics & Development
  • Joseph G. Jurcic, MD

    • Professor of Medicine at CUMC
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  • Ioanna Mosialou, PhD

    • Assistant Professor, CUIMC
  • Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD

    • Associate Professor of Medicine
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  • Pawel Muranski, MD

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC
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  • Emmanuelle Passegué, PhD

    • Alumni Professor of Genetics and Development(in Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine)
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  • Raul Rabadan, PhD

    • Professor of Biomedical Informatics (in Systems Biology)
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  • Aaron D Viny, MD

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine
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  • Shan Zha, MD, PhD

    • James A Wolff Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology and Cell Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics and in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center)
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  • Kimara Leibowitz Targoff, MD

    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics at CUMC
  • Sara Zaccara, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Systems Biology
  • Teresa M. Palomero Vazquez, PhD

    • Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics) at CUMC
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  • Tannishtha Reya, PhD

    • Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Basic Science Research in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
  • Nicole Lamanna, MD

    • Associate Professor of Medicine at CUMC
  • Jellert Gaublomme, PhD

    • Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
  • James Manley Ph.D.

    • Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences
  • Emily M. Mace, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics Immunology
  • Govind Bhagat

    • Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Columbia University Dept of Pathology&Cell Biology
  • Snoeck, Hans-Willem

    • Byron M Thomashow Professor of Medicine (in Microbiology and Immunology)
  • Laura Pasqualucci

    • Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
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  • Rebecca J. Leeman-Neill

    • Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Columbia University
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  • Craig R. Soderquist, MD

    • Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Columbia University
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Membership

This year nearly 90,000 people worldwide will be told they have Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)– among them 12,000 to 18,000 will be diagnosed in the United States alone. The goal of the Edward P. Evans Center for MDS at Columbia University is to combine the overlapping expertise of researchers from basic scientist to translational researchers and clinicians to 1) elucidate mechanisms of MDS pathogenesis and track the cell destined to become an MDS initiating cell; and 2) use this knowledge to develop new therapeutic modalities to prevent and treat MDS. To achieve these two goals, the MDS center hopes to bring together a mosaic of expertise among members with research directly targeted to MDS as well as in related disciplines that can be harvested in innovative and collaborative ways to bring new insights to MDS pathogenesis and treatment.  

The center invites all members of our community from areas of basic and clinical science, stem cell research, genomics and epigenomics, systems biology and bioengineering, chemistry and immunology that could be interested to apply their tools and knowledge to the MDS field to join our community. We commit to the establishment of a strong community by supporting our members through program enrichment activities, scientific interactions that will foster a collegial approach to MDS research, funding support of innovative high-risk projects and facilitating recruitment and retainment of outstanding trainees.

Benefits of Full Membership

  • Participation to scientific and social activities: seminars, training workshops, retreat 
  • Presentation and feedback at faculty meetings 
  • Pilot project funds  
  • Fellowship support funds (for PhD, MD/PhD, MD trainees)  
  • Listing on the MDS center website 
  • Showcase of publications and news on the MDS center website  

Criteria and Responsibilities

All Columbia faculty are eligible to apply by submitting a paragraph indicating the relevance of their work to MDS to Rafia Khursheed  (rk3244@cumc.columbia.edu).

For additional information, contact Dr. Stavroula Kousteni (sk2836@columbia.edu). The co-directors review applications for membership. Members are asked to vote on new affiliation requests. The responsibilities of members are as follows:

  • Active participation in the scientific and social activities and faculty meetings 
  • Acknowledgement of pilot and fellowship funds support in publications 
  • Attendance to faculty meetings & voting on new member applications 
  • Contribution to seminar series and retreat planning