Weill Cornell Medical College Faculty

Physiology and Biophysics

Full and Part Time Faculty (Weill Cornell Medical College)

• Accardi, Alessio Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics in Anesthesiology.
  Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Assistant Professor of Biochemistry. B.S. 1997, University of Padova (Italy); Ph.D. 2001, University of Palermo, Faculty of Biological Sciences (Italy).
• Aksay, Emre Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience in Computational Biomedicine. B.S. 1993, University of Washington; M.A. 1996, Princeton University; Ph.D. 2001, New York University.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/eaksay/
• Andersen, Olaf Sparre Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. M.D. 1971, Copenhagen University Faculty of Medicine (Denmark).http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/osandersen/
• Banfelder, Jason Assistant Professor of Engineering Biophysics in Physiology and Biophysics.
  Assistant Professor of Computational Biomedicine. B.E. 1993, Cooper Union; M.Ch.E. 1996, Cooper Union.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/jrbanfelder/
• Blanchard, Scott C. Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.A. 1991, University of California, Davis; B.S. 1994, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D. 2002, Stanford University.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/scblanchard/
• Boudker, Olga Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.Sc. 1990, Novosibirsk State University (Russia); M.Sc. 1993, Weitzmann Institute of Science (Israel); Ph.D. 1999, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/olboudker/
• Busselberg, Dietrich Professor of Physiology and Biophysics (Education). B.A., M.A. 1986, University of Hohenheim (Germany); Ph.D. 1989, University of Hohenheim (Germany).
• Campagne, Fabien Assistant Research Professor of Computational Biomedicine in Physiology and Biophysics.
  Assistant Research Professor of Computational Biomedicine. Ph.D. 1998, Henry Poincare University (France).http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/fcampagne/
• Christini, David J. Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Medicine.
  Professor of Computational Biomedicine.
  Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.S. 1991, Pennsylvania State University; M.S. 1993, Boston University; Ph.D. 1997, Boston University.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/djchristini/
• Elemento, Olivier Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine. B.S. 1995, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (France); M.S. 1998, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom); M.S. 1999, University of Paris (France); Ph.D. 2003, University of Montpellier (France).
• Frindt, Gustavo F. Associate Research Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.Sc. 1959, Pontifical Catholic University (Chile); M.D. 1963, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Medical School (Chile).
• Gardner, Daniel Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Professor of Physiology and Biophysics in Neuroscience. A.B. 1966, Columbia University; Ph.D. 1971, New York University.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/dgardner/
• Grafstein, Bernice Vincent and Brooke Astor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience.
  Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.A. 1951, University of Toronto (Canada); Ph.D. 1954, McGill University (Canada).http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/bgrafstein/
• Gumus, Zeynep Instructor in Physiology and Biophysics.
  Instructor in Computational Biomedicine. B.S. 1995, Bogazici University (Turkey); M.S. 1997, University of Cincinnati; M.A. 1999, Princeton University; Ph.D. 2003, Princeton University.
• Herzlinger, Doris A. Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics in Urology. B.A. 1975, Clark University; Ph.D. 1982, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/daherzlinger/
• Huang, Xin-Yun Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.S. 1983, Wuhan University (China); Ph.D. 1988, University of Houston.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/xhuang/
• Khelashvili, George Instructor in Physiology and Biophysics. Ph.D. 2005, Illinois Institute of Technology.
• King, Thomas K.C. Associate Professor of Medicine.
  Associate Professor of Medicine in Physiology and Biophysics.
  Associate Attending Physician, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. M.B.,B.Ch. 1959, University of Edinburgh Medical School (United Kingdom); M.D. 1963, University of Edinburgh Medical School (United Kingdom).http://www.weillcornell.org/physician/tkcking
• Krauss, Alfred Nathaniel Professor of Clinical Pediatrics.
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Physiology and Biophysics.
  Attending Pediatrician, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. B.A. 1959, Cornell University; M.D. 1963, Cornell University Medical College.http://www.weillcornell.org/physician/ankrauss
• Machaca, Khaled Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.S. 1990, American University of Beirut (Lebanon); M.S. 1992, University of Georgia; Ph.D. 1996, Emory University.
• Mason, Christopher Edward Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine. B.S. 2001, University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.Phil. 2003, Yale University; Ph.D. 2006, Yale University.
• Nimigean, Crina M. Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics in Anesthesiology.
  Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Associate Professor of Biochemistry. B.S. 1995, University of Bucharest (Romania); M.S. 1995, University of Bucharest (Romania); Ph.D. 1999, University of Miami.
• Nirenberg, Sheila Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Associate Professor of Computational Neuroscience in Computational Biomedicine. B.A. 1983, State University of New York at Albany; Ph.D. 1993, Harvard University.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/shnirenberg/
• Palmer, Lawrence G. Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. A.B. 1970, Swarthmore College; Ph.D. 1976, University of Pennsylvania.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/lgpalmer/
• Pecker, Mark Steven Professor of Clinical Medicine.
  Professor of Clinical Medicine in Physiology and Biophysics.
  Attending Physician, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. B.S. 1973, Brown University; M.D. 1977, New York University School of Medicine.http://www.weillcornell.org/physician/mspecker
• Shi, Lei Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Assistant Professor of Computational Biophysics in Computational Biomedicine. B.S. 1996, Beijing University (China); Ph.D. 2002, Columbia University.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/leishi/
• Silver, Randi B. Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.A. 1979, Skidmore College; Ph.D. 1986, Brown University.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/rbsilver/
• Skrabanek, Lucy Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computational Biomedicine in Physiology and Biophysics (Education).
  Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computational Biomedicine (Education). B.A. 1994, Trinity College (Ireland); Ph.D. 2000, Trinity College (Ireland).http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/lskrabanek/
• Suhre, Karsten Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.S. 1991, University of Osnabrueck (Germany); Ph.D. 1994, University of Toulouse (France).
• Urban, Bernd Werner Adjunct Associate Professor of Anesthesiology.
  Adjunct Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. M.S. 1974, University of Karlsruhe (Germany); Ph.D. 1978, Cambridge University Medical School (United Kingdom).
• Weinstein, Alan Mark Thomas H. Meikle Jr., Professor of Medical Education.
  Professor of Medicine.
  Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Attending Physician, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
  Clinical Affiliate, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. A.B. 1971, Princeton University; M.D. 1975, Harvard Medical School.http://www.weillcornell.org/physician/aweinstein
• Weinstein, Harel The Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Tri-Institutional Professor. Bs.C. 1966, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Israel); M.Sc. 1968, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Israel); D.Sc. 1971, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Israel).http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/hweinstein/
• Windhager, Erich Ernst Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. M.D. 1954, University of Vienna Faculty of Medicine (Austria).http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/eewindhager/
• Zhang, Jue Jillian Associate Research Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.S. 1985, Fudan University (China); M.S. 1988, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry (China); Ph.D. 1994, Harvard University.http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/jjzhang/

Full-Time Faculty (Affiliate Hospitals and Other Institutions)

• Blobel, Carl P. Professor of Physiology in Medicine.
  Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Senior Scientist, Hospital for Special Surgery. M.D. 1984, Justus-Liebig University Faculty of Medicine (Germany); Ph.D. 1991, University of California, San Francisco.
• Sander, Chris Tri-Institutional Professor. M.A. 1971, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. 1975, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Emeritus, Voluntary, Adjunct, and Other Faculty

• Clancy, Colleen E. Adjunct Associate Professor of Computational Biomedicine in Physiology and Biophysics. B.S. 1994, Union College; Ph.D. 2001, Case Western Reserve University.
• Durkin, John T. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.S. 1978, Case Western Reserve University; Ph.D. 1986, Harvard University.
• Filizola, Marta Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. M.S. 1993, Federico II University (Italy); Ph.D. 1999, Federico II University (Italy).
• Gadsby, David C. Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.A. 1969, Cambridge University (United Kingdom); M.A. 1973, Cambridge University (United Kingdom); Ph.D. 1978, University of London (United Kingdom).
• Gershengorn, Marvin Carl Adjunct Professor of Medicine in Physiology and Biophysics. B.S. 1967, City College, City University of New York; M.D. 1971, New York University School of Medicine.
• Greif, Roger Louis Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Biophysics. B.S. 1937, Haverford College; M.D. 1941, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
• Lee, Chin Ok Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. B.S. 1965, Seoul National University College of Medicine (Korea); M.S. 1967, Seoul National University College of Medicine (Korea); Ph.D. 1973, Indiana University School of Medicine.
• Leibler, Stanislas Tri-Institutional Professor. B.A. 1978, University of Warsaw (Poland); M.S. 1979, University of Paris (France); Ph.D. 1981, University of Paris (France); Ph.D. 1984, University of Paris (France).
• Lundbaek, Jens A. Adjunct Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. M.D. 1991, Copenhagen University Faculty of Medicine (Denmark); D.Sc. 2008, University of Copenhagen (Denmark).
• Maack, Thomas Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Biophysics. M.D. 1961, University of Sao Paulo, Faculty of Medicine (Brazil).http://weill.cornell.edu/research/researcher/tmaack/
• Ramirez, Francesco Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Biophysics.
  Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Biophysics in Pediatrics. D.Sc. 1969, University of Palermo, Faculty of Biological Sciences (Italy).
• Wriggers, Willy R. Associate Professor of Biophysics (Courtesy).
  Associate Professor of Computational Biomedicine (Courtesy). Ph.D. 1998, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.