Carl Blobel obtained his MD degree from the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, and a PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics from UCSF. He is currently a Senior Scientist and Program Director of the Arthritis and Tissue Degeneration Program at the Hospital for Special Surgery, where he holds the Virginia F. and William R. Salomon Chair in Musculoskeletal Research. He is also Professor of Medicine and of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology at Weill Cornell Medicine.

In 2015, Dr. Blobel was elected to the Association of American Physicians in recognition of his outstanding contributions to medicine. In 2017, he was awarded a Distinguished Affiliated Professorship by the Technical University of Munich in 2017, which recognizes "researchers of international prominence who have not only significantly shaped their own discipline but have also inspired other areas within the scientific community." Dr. Blobel has over 13,500 citations in the Web of Science Core collection ISI citation report and an h-factor of 69 (Oct. 2021).

Assistant Scientist (Research Track)

Inhibitors of iRhom2 for treatment of autoimmune disease

Tri-I MD-PhD - PBSB

Role of iRhom2 in neuroinflammation and olfaction

Stephanie graduated from Macaulay Honors at Hunter College in 2016, spent two years as a research assistant in Charlie Rice’s Laboratory at the Rockefeller University, and entered the Tri-I MD-PhD program in 2018. Her interest in inflammation and immunology led her to join the Blobel Laboratory, where she is co-mentored by Dr. Blobel and Dr. Jane Salmon. Outside of the lab, Stephanie enjoys leaving the concrete jungle to be out in nature.

sta2017@med.cornell.edu

Laboratory Technician

Instructor

iRhom2 as a regulator of Efferocytosis in chronic wounds

Lawrence Lum, MD PhD: Senior Director at Loxo Oncology at Lilly, San Diego, CA

Hanno Schlöndorff, MD PhD: Assist. Prof. Medicine, Harvard Med. School, Boston, MA

Umut Sahin, PhD: Assoc. Prof. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Yufang Zhang, PhD: Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Priya Issuree, PhD: Assistant Professor at the Univ. Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, Coralville, IO

Krzysztof Glomski, MD PhD: Clinical Pathology, Mass. General Hospital, Boston, MA

Karen Mendelson, PhD: Senior Scientist, Mt. Sinai Health System, NY, NY

Katherine Hall, PhD: Senior Scientist, eGenesis Inc. Cambridge, MA

Xue Li, PhD: Chief of Staff, Corporate Strategy, Roche, Shanghai, China

Rolake Alabi, MD PhD: Resident, Ophtalmology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

Greg Farber, PhD: Postdoc, UNC Mc Allister Heart Institute, Chapel Hill, NC

Beiyu Tang, PhD: MediTech Media, New York, NY

Nicole Lustgarten-Guahmich, PhD: Postdoc, Reproductive Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine

Jose Lora, PhD: graduated December 2021

Yi Zhao, PhD, Equity Research Associate, Barcleys

Ariana Rabinowitsch, MD PhD program, received her PhD in 2023, now back in medical school

Lucie Peduto, PhD: Head of the Laboratory for Stroma, Inflammation and Tissue Repair, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Kei Horiuchi, MD PhD: Professor, Keio University, Tokyo, and National Defense Medical College, Japan

Thorsten Maretzky, PhD: Assistant Professor at the Univ. Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, Coralville, IO

Victor Guaiquil, PhD: Assistant Research Professor, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, MI

Claus Franzke, PhD: Professor, University Clinic of Freiburg, Germany

Sylvain Le Gall, PhD: Maison La Varenne, Versailles, France

Linda Howard, PhD: Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Jörn Krätzschmar, PhD: Director Experimental Medicine, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Berlin Germany

Nobuko Kawaguchi: Hospital Assistant Professor, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Stephen Swendeman: Research Associate, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Astrid Evers, PhD: Program Officer, German Research Foundation, Bonn, Germany

Hongming Zhou, PhD: Assistant Research Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Jordi Malapeira, PhD: Research Project Manager, Univ. Autonoma di Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Nina Hewing, MD: Ophthalmology, Muenster, Germany

Coline Haxaire, PhD: Senior Research Scientist, Avon Research, Suffern, NY

Monireh Roghani, PhD

Karen Nelson, PhD

Valerie Chesneau, PhD

Daniel Hill MD

Dara Froehmel MD

Francesca Cardello MD

Renpeng Fang MD

Asheesh Harsha MD

Ren Zhao MD

Chao Li, MD

Arda Celen