Meet Your Cancer Dormancy & Tumor Microenvironment Institute Members
CDTMI Director
Under the leadership of Director Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, Ph.D., the Cancer Dormancy & Tumor Microenvironment Institute shapes their work with an eye toward clinical applications.
Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD
Director, Cancer Dormancy and Tumor Microenvironment Institute
CDTMI Clinical Research Co-Leaders
Maja H. Oktay, MD, PhD, MS
Co-Chair, Clinical Research Cancer Dormancy and Tumor Microenvironment Institute
Amit K. Verma, MD
Associate Director, Translational Science, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
CDTMI Members
Members develop research programs aligned with the Institute's vision.
Praveen Agrawal, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Teresa V. Bowman, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology
Dongsheng Cai, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
John S. Condeelis, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Dianne Cox, PhD
Professor, Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology
Sofia de Oliveira, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology
Antonio Di Cristofano, PhD
Professor, Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology
Eugen Dhimolea, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
David R. Entenberg, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
David R. Fooksman, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Matthew J. Gamble, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Evripidis Gavathiotis, PhD
Co-Leader, Cancer Therapeutics, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
John M. Greally, MD
Director, Center for Epigenomics
Kira Gritsman, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Oncology (Medical Oncology)
Wenjun Guo, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Rachel Hazan, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Derek M. Huffman, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Keisuke Ito, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Georgios Karagiannis, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Blood Cancer Institute, Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center
Lindsay M. LaFave, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology
David M. Loeb, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics and Developmental and Molecular Biology
Maria Marianovich, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology
John C. McAuliffe, MD, PhD
Attending Physician, Hepatobiliary and Upper GI Surgery
Hayley M. McDaid, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Oncology (Medical Oncology)
Satish K. Nandakumar, MBBS, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Maja H. Oktay, MD, PhD, MS
Co-Chair, Clinical Research Cancer Dormancy and Tumor Microenvironment Institute
Jeffrey E. Segall, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Maria Soledad Sosa, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Ulrich G. Steidl, MD, PhD
Deputy Director, and Associate Director for Basic Science, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
Brendon M. Stiles, MD
Associate Director, Surgical Oncology, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
Amit K. Verma, MD
Associate Director, Translational Science, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
Britta Will, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Oncology (Medical Oncology)
Xingxing Zang, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology