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Carl Blobel MD PhD
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 15,000 citations in the Web of Science Core collection ISI citation report and an h-factor of 71 (Sept 2024).
Current Lab Members
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Gisela Weskamp, PhD
Assistant Scientist (Research Track)
Inhibitors of iRhom2 for treatment of autoimmune disease
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Alejandra Vela Moreno
Laboratory Technician
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Minakshi Rana, PhD
Instructor
iRhom2 as a regulator of Efferocytosis in chronic wounds
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Qura-Tul-Ain (Annie) Khan
Senior Research Technician/Postbac
Regulation of ADAM17 by iRhom1 and 2
Lab Alums
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Graduate Students
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, Jefferies Investment Banking
Yi Zhao, PhD, Equity Research Associate, Barcleys
Ariana Rabinowitsch, MD PhD program, received her PhD in 2023, now back in medical school
Stephanie Azzopardi, MD PhD program, received her PhD in 2024, now back in medical school
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Postdocs
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
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Visiting Students
Daniel Hill MD
Dara Froehmel MD
Francesca Cardello MD
Renpeng Fang MD
Asheesh Harsha MD
Ren Zhao MD
Chao Li, MD
Arda Celen