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Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health

The Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center (PCC) is the NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers. The center was founded and received its NCI designation in 1975. Its mission is to bring visionary thinking and compassionate care to the science of treating cancer and to educate the community and health care professionals about the latest research and information about cancer detection, diagnosis, treatment, and survival.

PCC serves the metropolitan New York City area, and treats patients in facilities located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. The center conducts cutting-edge basic, translational, clinical, and population research with the aim of enhancing cancer prevention, devising new cancer treatments, and improving patient outcomes and quality of life.

Read more about the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health. 

New York University Langone Health

Comp
Alec C Kimmelman, MD, PhD
Director
550 First Avenue
1201 Smilow Building
New York, NY 10016
(212) 263-3276
Admin Leader
Laura Alice, MBA
Director, Grants and Research Administration

Research Programs

Research Program Program Leaders
Cancer Cell Biology Richard Possemato, MD; Kenneth Hu, MD, PhD
Cancer Genome Dynamics Marcin Imielinksi, PhD; William Carroll, MD, PhD; Faith Davies, MD
Epidemiology and Cancer Control Jiyoung Ahn, PhD; Danil Makarov, MD
Tumor Immunlogy Kwok-Kin Wong, MD, PhD; Michelle Krogsgaard, PhD; Catherine Diefenbach, MD

Shared Resources

Category Resource Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Genome Technology Center Adriana Heguy, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Immune Monitoring Lab Sara Borghi, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Metabolomics Drew Jones, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Microscopy Fengxia Liang, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Preclinical Imaging Youssef Wadghiri, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Proteomics Beatrix Ueberheide, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Rodent Genetic Engineering Sang Yong Kim, PhD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Biorepository Andre Moreira, MD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Experimental Pathology Cynthia Loomis, MD, PhD
Cat 6: Biostatistics Biostatistics Cheongeun Oh, PhD
Cat 7: Informatics Applied Bioinformatics Aristotelis Tsirigos, PhD
Last Updated
December 3, 2025