The Institute for Personalized Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai provides an academic home for faculty members interested in working together to advance precision medicine. Our faculty members are based in many of the departments, centers, and institutes at the Mount Sinai Health System, reflecting our interdisciplinary and innovative programs. As our research programs mature, our Core Faculty and Affiliated Faculty membership is expected to grow.
Core Faculty
Judy H. Cho, MD
Director, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
Ward-Coleman Professor of Translational Genetics
Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Ruth J.F. Loos, PhD
Co-Director, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
Director, Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program
Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine
Member, Child Health and Development Institute
Ron Do, PhD
Associate Professor in Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Member, The Center for Statistical Genetics
Member, The Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology
Member, The Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute
Yuval Itan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Member, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
Guo-Cheng Yuan, PhD
Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Investigator, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
Lili Chan, MD, MSCR
Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology
Member, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
BioMe Phenomics Center
Girish Nadkarni, MD, MPH, CPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Clinical Director of the Institute for Personalized Medicine
Aniwaa Owusu Obeng, PharmD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Pharmacy
Ghislain Rocheleau, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Ernest Turro, PhD
The Arthur J. and Nellie Z. Cohen Professor of Pediatrics (Genetics)
Affiliated Faculty
Erwin Bottinger, MD
Founding Director, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
CEO, Berlin Institute of Health
Carol Horowitz, MD
Associate Professor, Population Health Science and Policy
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Health Equity and Community-Engaged Research
Matthew Levin
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia
Trainees
Daniel Balick
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nathalie Chami, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kumardeep Chaudhary
Postdoctoral Fellow
Daiane Hemerich
Postdoctoral Fellow
Daniel Jordan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Carla Marquez-Luna
Postdoctoral Fellow
Michael Preuss
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cigdem Sevim
Postdoctoral Fellow
Roelof Smit
Postdoctoral Fellow
Zhe (JJ) Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yiming Wu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shiwei Zheng
Postdoctoral Fellow
Staff
Administration
Amanda Merkelson, MPH
BioMe Managing Director
Stacy Paris
Administrative Manager
Akosua Twumasi
Grants Manager
Neil Netherly
Administrative Assistant
Joanice John
Administrative Assistant
Rachel Posner, MPA
Administrative Director (Office of Translational Research Institutes)
Christian Chino
Finance Manager (Office of Translational Research Institutes)
Research Personnel
Shantanu Bafna
Associate Bioinformatician
Tielman Van Vleck, PhD
Computational Scientist
Aparna Saha
Project Manager
Alanna Gomez
Clinical Research Coordinator
Ana Mejia
Clinical Research Coordinator
Michell Yee
Clinical Research Coordinator
Carlton Bailey
Clinical Research Coordinator
Sheryl Cruz
Clinical Research Coordinator
Klaren Ng
Clinical Research Coordinator
Laura Del Hierro
Clinical Research Coordinator
Bernadette Liggayu
Laboratory Supervisor
Janice Morinigo
Laboratory Coordinator
Aine Duffy, MS
Bioinformatician
Yael Pinchevsky
Trainee
Ben Omega Petrazzini
Associate Bioinformatician
Iain Forrest
MD/PhD Student
Lauren Stalbow
MD/PhD Student
Jennifer Muse
Associate Researcher, PhysioLab
Hannah Kittrell
Clinical Research Associate/PhysioLab Manager
Informatics and Information Technology
Steve Ellis
Senior Director
Tom Kaszemacher
Senior Software Engineer
Rajiv Nadukuru
Senior Database Analyst
Quingbin Song, MD, MSc
Senior Application Specialist
Simon Lee
Bioinformatician