CER Team and Faculty

CER Director

Iestyn Whitehouse, PhD
Director of the Center for Epigenetics Research (CER)

CER Executive Committee

Lydia Finley, PhD
Geoffrey Beene Junior Faculty Chair
Pictured: Dr. Ross Levine
Chief Scientific Officer; Senior Vice President, Memorial Hospital, Translational Research
Memorial Sloan Kettering Hematologic Oncologist Eytan Stein
Chief, Leukemia Service; Director, Program for Drug Development in Leukemia, Division of Hematologic Malignancies
Pictured: Craig Thompson
Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research   
Iestyn Whitehouse, PhD
Director of the Center for Epigenetics Research (CER)

Computational Epigenetics Lab

Richard Koche
Director of Computational Epigenetics
Yingqian Zhan
Sr. Computational Biologist
Yujin Choi
Computational Biologist
Research Fellow
Julie Yang
Sr. Computational Biologist

Epigenetics Innovation Lab

PJ Hamard
Manager, CER Innovation Lab
Erick Torres Hinojosa
Research Technician
Riad Itani
Research Technician
Eshita Joshi
Senior Research Technician
Ada Salataj
Scientific Research Lead
Kurt Vrancken
Research Assistant
Zhifan Yang
Research Assistant

CER Administration

Photograph of Rebecca MacLean smiling.
SKI Administrative Assistant II
Delphine Prou
Scientific Research Manager

Affiliated Faculty

The Omar Abdel-Wahab
Chair, Molecular Pharmacology Program, SKI; Evnin Family Chair in Molecular Pharmacology; Attending Physician, Leukemia Service
Robert Benezra, PhD
Deputy Director for Core Technologies; Laura and Christopher Pucillo Chair in Metastasis Research
Emily H. Cheng, MD, PhD
Attending Pathologist, Department of Pathology; Member, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program
Ping Chi
Co-Director, Sarcoma Translational Research, MSK Sarcoma Center
Junhong Choi
Assistant Professor
Pictured: James Fagin
Head, Division of Subspecialty Medicine; Member, Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program
Lydia Finley, PhD
Geoffrey Beene Junior Faculty Chair
Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Karuna Ganesh
Assistant Member and Medical Oncologist
MSK Medical Oncologist Mrinal M. Gounder
Physician Ambassador to India and Asia
Maria Jasin
William E. Snee Chair
Pictured: Dr. Scott Keeney
Member, Molecular Biology Program, SKI; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Frederick R. Adler Chair
Pictured: Alex Kentsis
Director of the Tow Center for Developmental Oncology
Pictured: Dr. Ross Levine
Chief Scientific Officer; Senior Vice President, Memorial Hospital, Translational Research
Scott Lowe
Chair, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program, SKI; Chair, Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Joan Massagué, PhD
Director, Sloan Kettering Institute; Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair; Member, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
Pictured: Dinshaw Patel
Abby Rockefeller Mauze Chair of Experimental Therapeutics
John Petrini
Chair, Molecular Biology Program, SKI; Director, The Functional Genomics Initiative; Paul A. Marks Chair in Molecular Cell Biology
Alexander Rudensky, PhD
Chair, Immunology Program, SKI; Director, Ludwig Center at MSK
Dr. Charles Sawyers
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair in Human Oncology and Pathogenesis; Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program
Andrea Schietinger
Catherine and Frederick R. Adler Chair for Junior Faculty
Memorial Sloan Kettering Hematologic Oncologist Eytan Stein
Chief, Leukemia Service; Director, Program for Drug Development in Leukemia, Division of Hematologic Malignancies
Pictured: Craig Thompson
Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research   
Iestyn Whitehouse, PhD
Director of the Center for Epigenetics Research (CER)