Stefan Feske, MD

Principal Investigator, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pathology, and Jeffrey Bergstein Professor of Medicine, NYU Langone Health
Stefan.Feske@nyulangone.org

Dr. Feske studied Medicine at the Universities of Hamburg and Freiburg in Germany, from where he graduated summa cum laude with a MD degree and a research thesis on Primary Immunodeficiency. After finishing his residency in the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the University of Freiburg, he conducted postdoctoral studies at the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology (Freiburg) and the Immune Disease Institute at Harvard Medical School (Boston) in the lab of Anjana Rao. There he made essential contributions to the discovery of the CRAC channel protein ORAI1 and identified the first patients with mutations in ORAI1 and its activator STIM1 defining a new disease called CRAC channelopathy. Dr. Feske is the director of the Ion Channels & Transporters in Immunity (ICTI) program at NYU. He is a scientific co-founder of CalciMedica, a biotechnology company that develops CRAC channel inhibitors for the treatment of immune diseases.

Miki Jishage, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, Lab manager
Miki.Jishage@nyulangone.org

Education: Ph.D. in Biochemistry,
Graduate Univ. for Advanced Studies and National Institute of Genetics, Japan

Kaiwen Ma

Research Scientist

Education: Ph.D., Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Jingjie Zhu, M.S.

Associate Research Scientist, Lab manager
Jingjie.Zhu@nyulangone.org

Education: M.S., Wageningen University

Maxwell MacDermott

Bioinformatician

Education: M.S., Hunter College

Research Interest: Gene regulatory roles of ion channels in immune cells.

Serap Erdogmus, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Serap.Erdogmus@nyulangone.org

Education: Pharmacist, Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany, Postdoctoral Fellow

Wenyi Li, M.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Wenyi.Li@nyulangone.org

Education: M.D., Central South University, China

Research Interest: Ion Channels in Antitumor Immunity and Autoimmunity

Lucile Noyer, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Lucile.Noyer@nyulangone.org

Education: PhD from the university of Lille, France

Research Interest: I am interested in the role of ion channels and transporters in cancer and antitumor immunity.

Liwei Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Liwei.Wang@nyulangone.org

Education: PhD in Pharmacology, University of Rochester

Research Interest: Function of Ion channels in Immuno-oncology and Autoimmunity

Yinhu (Tiger) Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Yinhu.Wang@nyulangone.org

Education: Ph.D. (cell biology, immunology)

Research Interest: The function of calcium release-activated calcium (CRAC) channel and other channels on T cells in autoimmunity and infectious disease.

Li Zhong, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Li.Zhong2@nyulangone.org

Education: Ph.D., Wuhan University

Research Interest: Function of ICT in innate and adaptive immunity.

Anthony Tao, B.Sc.

MD/PhD Student
Anthony.Tao@nyulangone.org

Education: B.Sc., New York University

Research Interest: Role of ion channels in B cell physiology

Ke Hu

Undergraduate Student
Ke.Hu@nyulangone.org

Education: B.A candidate in Biochemistry at New York University

Research Interest: The role of CRAC channels in immune responses by studying the function of T cells, B cells and macrophages

Justyn Chang

Undergraduate Student
jc9512@nyu.edu

Education: B.A candidate in Biochemistry at New York University

Lucy Dai

Undergraduate Student

Education: B.A. candidate in Biology and Economics, New York University

Dominik Drmić

Visiting Graduate Student

Education: Medical student, University of Heidelberg (Germany)

Research Interest: Ion channels in autoreactive T cells in the CNS.

Laura Vinnenberg

Visiting Graduate Student

Education: B.Sc. in Biochemistry, M.Sc. in Molecular Biomedicine

Research Interest: Contribution of ion channels to T cell (patho) physiology

Louisa Hessling

Visiting Graduate Student

Education: Medical student, University of Hamburg (Germany)

Research Interest: Membrane ion transport in immune cells