The leadership team of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine is comprised of experts in stem cell biology and multiple focus areas including neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases, blood diseases and cancers, and epithelial tissue regeneration.
Our goal is to advance and coordinate basic, translational, and clinical research in regenerative medicine across Mount Sinai’s campus in order to accelerate the delivery of new therapies for our patients.
Scientific Leadership
Sarah E. Millar, PhD
Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Director, Black Family Stem Cell Institute
Senior Associate Dean for Basic Research
Professor, Departments of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Dermatology
Michael Rendl, MD
Associate Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Associate Director, Black Family Stem Cell Institute
Professor, Departments of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Dermatology
Nan Yang, PhD
Director, Alper Center for Neural Development and Regeneration
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Eirini Papapetrou, MD PhD
Director, Center for Advancement of Blood Cancer Therapies
Director, Stem Cell Engineering Core
Professor, Department of Oncological Sciences and Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology
Ya-Wen Chen, PhD
Co-Director, Center for Epithelial Biology and Regeneration
Assistant Professor, Departments of Otolaryngology and Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Elena Ezhkova, PhD
Co-Director, Center for Epithelial Biology and Regeneration
Professor, Departments of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Dermatology Director, Mount Sinai Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Center
Internal Advisory Board
Margaret H. Baron, MD, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Basic and Clinical Research Training; Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Oncological Sciences, and Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology
Bruce Gelb, MD
Gogel Family Chair and Director, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute; Dean for Child Health Research; Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology; and Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Alison M. Goate, DPhil
Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Genomics, Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences;
Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology; and faculty of the Icahn Genomics Institute
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
Director, Precision Immunology Institute; Professor of Oncological Sciences, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology and Dermatology; Co-Director, Cancer Immunology program at The Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Institute; and Director of the Mount Sinai Human Immune Monitoring Center
Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD
Director, Tisch Cancer Institute; Professor and Ward-Coleman Chair of Oncological Sciences; Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology and Dermatology; Director, Mount Sinai Cancer, Mount Sinai Health System
External Advisory Board
Haifan Lin, PhD
Director, Yale Stem Cell Center; Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine
Kenneth S. Zaret, PhD
Director, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Joseph Leidy Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Sally Temple, PhD
Scientific Director, Principal Investigator and Co-Founder, Neural Stem Cell Institute
Anthony Oro, MD, PhD
Eugene and Gloria Bauer Professor of Dermatology; Associate Director of the Center for Definitive and Curative Medicine; co-director of the Child Health Research Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine