Lab Members

Principal Investigators

Dr. Taha Merghoub is the Deputy Director of the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) in New York. He is also the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Oncology Research, Professor of Pharmacology, and Professor of Immunology Research in Medicine at WCM.  
Dr. Merghoub is currently researching potential immune-based therapies to treat cancer. He is also studying the pathogenesis and treatment of melanoma and the development of tools to study melanoma and immune responses in multiple cancers. His work is heavily collaborative, both within the institution and with multiple entities across different disciplines. His projects fall into 4 categories: overcoming resistance to immune checkpoint blockade therapy by modulating the immune system, using the immune modulatory properties of modalities that target and kill tumor cells directly, defining biomarkers and genetic determinants of response to immune therapy, and developing a tissue repository for the immunotherapy and melanoma groups.

Taha Merghoub, Ph.D.

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Jedd Wolchok, MD, PhD, FASCO, is the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.  Dr. Wolchok is a clinician-scientist exploring innovative immunotherapeutic strategies in laboratory models, and a principal investigator in numerous pivotal clinical trials.  Dr. Wolchok helped establish immunotherapy as a standard approach to cancer treatment and was instrumental in the clinical development leading to the approval of ipilimumab and the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab for advanced melanoma.  He supervises an NIH R01-funded basic science laboratory that is focused on investigating novel immunotherapeutic agents in pre-clinical laboratory models. The focus of his translational research laboratory is to investigate innovative means to modulate the immune response to cancer as well as to better understand the mechanistic basis for sensitivity and resistance to currently available immunotherapies.

Jedd Wolchok, M.D., Ph.D., FASCO

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Administrative Support

Beatrice Yin

Laboratory Manager

Katherine Morel Perez

Senior Administrative Specialist

Lucia Morgado-Palacin

Scientific Administrator

Maria Alexander

Project Manager

Lab Members

Alejandra Vela Moreno

Veterinary Technician

Antonio Bravo

Veterinary Technician

Gil Weng

Instructor

Claudia Galassi

Postdoctoral Associate

Rachana Maniyar

Postdoctoral Associate

Tara Pal Chaudhuri

Research Specialist

David Falvo

Postdoctoral Associate

Christopher Hackett

Assistant Professor

Anais Assouvie

Postdoctoral Associate

Cailian Liu

Laboratory Supervisor

Isabell Schulze

Instructor

Sadna Budhu

Assistant Professor

Parwiz Abrahimi

Urologic Oncology Fellow

Tao Shi

Postdoctoral Associate

Ashley Ahmed

Graduate Student

Daniel Hirschhorn

Assistant Professor

Lukas Krähenbühl

Visiting Fellow

Mamadou A. Bah

Graduate Student

Vincent Panneton

Postdoctoral Associate

Anca Apavaloaei

Postdoctoral Associate

Ashley Stephen Doane

Postdoctoral Associate

Divya Venkatesh

Research Associate

Levi Mangarin

Senior Bioinformatician

Mariam Mathew George

Postdoctoral Associate

Romina Vahedizadeh

Research Technician

Yacine Marouf

Bioinformatician

Alexander M. Lesokhin

Associate Professor

Mehdi Benzaoui

Postdoctoral Associate

Danny Khalil

Research Associate

Jonathan F. Khan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Alumni

Abigail Cragin

Research Technician

Sara Chekalil

Research associate

Raven Rose

Research Technician

Tahir Sheikh

Research Technician

Amit Regev

Research Specialist

Stephanie Tang

Research Technician

Ricardo Gomez

Research Technician

Andrew Chow

Research Associate

Valeria Estrada Navarro

Research Technician II

Melih Arda Ozsoy

Research Technician

Linda Hamadene

Research Specialist

Celines Berroa

Research Technician

Takiyeddine Iken

Research Technician

Daniel Thach

Research Technician

Svena Verma

Graduate Student

Lauren Dong

Graduate Student

  • Aditi Gupta (Grad Student)

  • Aliya Holland (Reseach Tech)

  • Allison Betof Warner (Med Fellow)

  • Amine Feliachi (Reseach Tech)

  • Anis Gasmi (Graduate Research Assistant)

  • Anne-Laure Flamar (Research Fellow)

  • Areej Assaf (Visiting Investigator)

  • Billel Gasmi (Reseach Tech)

  • Ceyhan Elipenhali (Research Tech)

  • Czrina Cortez (Reseach Tech)

  • David Redmond (Bioinformatics Engineer)

  • David Schaer (Research Scholar)

  • David Schroder (Visiting Investigator)

  • Dmitriy Zamarin (Research Associate)

  • Fadi Samaan (Reseach Tech)

  • Felipe Campesato (Research Fellow)

  • Feng Zhao (Research Tech)

  • Giulio Pesci (Reseach Tech)

  • Hong Zhong (Reseach Tech)

  • Hyejin Choi (Visiting Investigator)

  • Jacob Ricca (Reseach Tech)

  • Jenna Sneifer (Reseach Tech)

  • Judith Michels (Research Fellow)

  • Judy Murphy (Grad Student)

  • Julia Eisen (Reseach Tech)

  • Kelly Fitzgerlad (Med Fellow)

  • Kyle Draleau (Reseach Tech)

  • Lauren Boucher (Reseach Tech)

  • Leila Sellam (Grad Research Assistant)

  • Mathieu Gigoux (Research Fellow)

  • Mohsen Abu-Akeel (Reseach Tech)

  • Myat Ko (Reseach Tech)

  • Nezar Mehanna (Reseach Tech)

  • Nicole Malandro (Grad Student)

  • Nouraiz Falik (Reseach Tech)

  • Olivier De Henau (Research Fellow)

  • Ori Barzilai (Surg Fellow)

  • Rachel Giese (Med Fellow)

  • Rikke Holmgaad (Research Fellow)

  • Sara Schad (Grad Student)

  • Shakuntala Tiwari (Reseach Tech)

  • Stephane Pourpe (Reseach Tech)

  • Tamar Plitt (Reseach Tech)

  • Tyler Walther (Reseach Tech)

  • Xia Yang (Reseach Tech)

  • Yanyun Li (Reseach Tech)

  • Yasin Senbabaoglu (Bioinformatics Engineer)

  • Yonina Bykov (Reseach Tech)

  • Yuka Maeda (Research Fellow)