Principal Investigator
Avner Schlessinger, Ph.D.
Director, AI Small Molecule Drug Discovery Center
Dr. Amy and James Elster Professor of Molecular Biology
Co-Director, Disease Mechanisms and Therapeutics Training Area
Associate Director, Mt. Sinai Center for Therapeutics Discovery
B.Sc., Tel Aviv University
Ph.D., Columbia University
Postdoctoral Training, University of California, San Francisco
Lab Members
Data Scientist
M.S. Columbia University
Chapel Hill, NC
Dance, Singing, reading
Ph.D. student
M.S. Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Ph.D. student
M.S. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
Beijing, China
Swimming, sci-fi reading and playing with her cat
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tel Aviv, Israel
Running, traveling, cooking
Ph.D. Student
M.S. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
B.S. NYU
Volleyball, Cardmaking, and Crochet
Previous Lab Members
- Paul Morgan (2023 – 2025)
- Noah Herrington (2023 – 2025)
- Julian Storm (Summer 2025)
- David Stein (2020-2025)
- Ethan Grimes (2023-2025)
- Elliot Yoon (Summer 2024)
- Tia Reichenberg (Summer 2024)
- Ego Wong (2023 – 2024)
- Maya Parnes (Summer 2024)
- Rachel Buller (Summer 2024, Summer 2025)
- Sebastian Jakobsen (Summer 2024)
- Keino Hutchinson (2019-2024)
- Nicole Zatorski (2020-2023)
- Nolan Caile (Summer 2021)
- Rachel-Ann Garibsingh (2017-2020)
- Ryan Smith (2015-2020)
- Peter Man-Un Ung (-2019)
- Rayees Rahman (2016-2019)
- Alisha Malla (2017-2019)
- Chloe Ling (2019)
- Megan Wojciechowicz (Fall 2019)
- Josue Barnes (2016-2018)
- Russell Keathley (2016-2018)
- Jason Lee
- Claire Colas (2013-2017)
- Shelby Marchese (Fall 2016)
- Nathan Gershengorin (Summer 2015 and 2016)
- Yaroslav Markov (Summer 2016)
- Molly Johnson (Summer 2016)
- Shelby Marchese (Fall 2016)
- Shanique Alabi (2014-2015)
- Helen Unger (Spring 2014)
- John Tseng (Spring 2014)
- Jennifer Stockert (Fall 2013)
