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.

New York University Langone Health

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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

COE Leader

Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH
Assoc. Director for Community Outreach and Education

CRTEC Leader

Mark Philips, MD
Assoc. Director for Education and Training

PED Leader

Joseph Ravenell, MD
Associate Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Research Programs

Research Program	Program Leaders
Cancer Cell Biology	Richard Possemato, PhD; Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD
Cancer Genome Dynamics	Hannah Klein, PhD; William Carroll, MD
Epidemiology and Cancer Control	Jiyoung Ahn, PhD; Danil Makarov, MD
Melanoma	Jeffrey Weber, MD, PhD; Iman Osman, MD
Tumor Immunlogy	Kwok-Kin Wong, MD, PhD; Michelle Krogsgaard, PhD

Shared Resources

Category	Resource	Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Genome Technology Center	Adriana Heguy, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Microscopy	Fengxia Liang, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Precision Immunology	Sara Borghi, PhD; Peter Lopez ,
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; Sandra Mendoza,
Cat 4: Clinical Research	Experimental Pathology	Cynthia Loomis, MD, PhD; Valeria Mezzano, MD, PHD
Cat 6: Biostatistics	Biostatistics	Judith Goldberg, ScD; Yongzhao Shao, PhD
Cat 7: Informatics	Applied Bioinformatics	Aristotelis Tsirigos, PhD

Last Updated

June 5, 2024