Principal Investigator

Thales Papagiannakopoulos, PhD
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU
Postdoctoral Fellow with Tyler Jacks Lab, Koch Integrative Insitute for Cancer Research
PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Kenneth Kosik Lab, UC Santa Barbara, 2010
BS Molecular Genetics, University of Sussex, UK, 2004
Postdoctoral Fellow with Tyler Jacks Lab, Koch Integrative Insitute for Cancer Research
PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Kenneth Kosik Lab, UC Santa Barbara, 2010
BS Molecular Genetics, University of Sussex, UK, 2004
Staff Scientist
Research Associates

Sahith Rajalingam
Research Associate
MS In Pharmacology and Toxicology, Long Island University, 2019
PharmD, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, 2015
Sai is a research associate/lab manager. He joined the lab in September 2021. He ensures that the lab operates… and outside of the lab, he likes to travel and cook.
Research Assistant
Postdoctoral Fellows


Stefan Kotschi, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
MD at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany 2022
Stefan joined the team in 2024 and is working on the intersection of cancer, neuroscience, and systemic metabolism.
Graduate Students

Alec Vaughan
Graduate Student
Alec is a Vilcek graduate student. He joined our lab in the summer of 2024. He is focusing on the role of ferroptosis and metabolism in lung cancer.
Bioinformatics Programmer

Yuan Hao, PhD
Senior Bioinformatics Programmer
PhD Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, University College Dublin
MPhil Computational Biology, University of Cambridge
Senior Bioinformatics Programmer at PCC/ABL, NYU Langone Health since 2020
MPhil Computational Biology, University of Cambridge
Senior Bioinformatics Programmer at PCC/ABL, NYU Langone Health since 2020
Lab Administrative Manager




