Einstein, part of Yeshiva University, is one of the nation’s premier institutions for medical education, basic research and clinical investigation. The Einstein campus is located in an interesting area of the northeast Bronx close to Fordham University, the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Gardens.
Among our Mentors are scientists in the National Academy, a member of the Howard Hughes, and faculty representing a wide range of interests sponsored by NIGMS, all with positive experience and desire to mentor developing science/educators.
BETTR scholars will select research mentors by virtue of intense interest in the research area of the mentor, and availability of a spot in the lab. Mentors are expected to support the pre-BETTR scholar for the first year of their training when there is complete immersion in research. This requirement provides a head-start for BETTR scholars in research, allowing them to reinforce their time-management skills for the BETTR years of their education when juggling between research and teaching activities is essential.
Below is a list of possible Research Mentors. However, additional Mentors can be added according to the BETTR guidelines. Key evaluation points are NIH funding by the laboratory, experience in mentoring, and documented participation and interest in teaching.
| Name/Degree(s) |
Rank |
Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s) |
Research Interest |
Jonathan M. Backer
M.D. |
Professor |
Molecular Pharmacology |
PI 3-kinase signaling |
Joan Berman
PhD |
Professor |
Pathology (Microbiology and Immunology) |
Pathogenesis of NeuroAIDS |
Barbara K. Birshtein
Ph.D. |
Professor |
Cell Biology |
Regulation of immunoglobulin heavy chain gene rearrangements and expression |
Anne Bresnick
PhD. |
Professor |
Biochemistry |
Mechanisms of Motility and Metastasis |
Arturo Casadevall
M.D., Ph.D. |
Professor |
Microbiology & Immunology |
Focus on pathogenic microbes including Cryptococcus neoformans, Bacillus anthracis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. How do they cause diseases and how do hosts protect themselves against microbes? |
John Condeelis
PhD. |
Professor |
Anatomy and Structural Biology |
Cell motility, Chemotaxis and Cancer |
Dianne Cox
Ph.D. |
Professor |
Anatomy and Structural Biology (Developmental and Molecular Biology) |
Regulation of Macrophage Function |
Ana Maria Cuervo
MD PhD |
Professor |
Developmental and Molecular Biology (Anatomy and Structural Biology) |
Autophagy, aging, neurodegeneration |
Paul Frenette
MD. |
Professor |
Department of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology (Stem Cell Institute) |
Hematopoietic Stem Cell |
Susan Band Horwitz
PhD |
Professor |
Molecular Pharmacology |
Antitumor Drug Development from Natural Products |
| William R. Jacobs Jr. PhD. |
Professor |
and Genetics |
Tuberculosis, Pathogenesis, Bacterial Genetics, Drug resistance, Vaccine |
Margaret C. Kielian
Ph.D.
|
Professor |
Cell Biology |
Molecular mechanisms of virus membrane fusion and virus budding |
Fernando Macian
MD, Ph.D. |
Assoc. Professor |
Pathology |
T cell Immunology |
| Stanley G. Nathenson M.D. |
Professor |
Microbiology and Immunology/Cell Biology |
Molecular/structural basis for comstimulatory regulation of T cells in malignancy and immunity |
Laura Santambrogio
MD, PhD. |
Assoc. Professor |
Pathology (Microbiology & Immunology) |
Dendritic cells, antigen processing and presentation |
Matthew D. Scharff
M.D. |
Professor |
Cell Biology (Medicine) |
Antibody diversity. B cell malignancies |
Vern L. Schramm
PhD. |
Professor |
Biochemistry |
Transition States – Inhibitor Design |
Jeffrey E. Segall
PhD. |
Professor |
Anatomy and Structural Biology |
Tumor cell invasion and metastasis |
Robert Singer
PhD. |
Professor |
Anatomy and Structural Biology |
Studying the Birth and Travels of RNA |
Suzanne R. Zukin
Ph.D. |
Professor |
Department of Neuroscience Director, Neuropsychopharmacology Center |
Excitatory amino acid receptor signaling in activity- and experience-dependent synaptic plasticity |