NYSBC - Key Persons


Aaron Owji

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Adam Akovity

Job Titles:
  • IT Technician

Adriaan Bax

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Chief of Biophysical NMR Spectroscopy Section, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Bax has been with the National Institutes of Health since 1983. He received both his B.S. and Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. Dr. Bax has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2002. Over the past three decades, he has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the E. Bright Wilson Award of the American Chemical Society.

Akira Karasawa

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Alex de Marco

Job Titles:
  • SEMC Director

Alex Flynn

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Alex Noble

Job Titles:
  • SEMC Group Leader

Alex Tran

Job Titles:
  • Beamline Scientist

Alireza Nasiri

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Andre Chavez

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Aneel Aggarwal

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Pharmacological Sciences & Oncological Sciences

Ann McDermott

Job Titles:
  • Esther and Ronald Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry, Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemical Engineering, Chair, Department of Chemistry
  • Professor
Ann McDermott is the Esther Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry in the Departments of Chemistry, Biological Sciences, and Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. She is the lead investigator for solid-state NMR spectroscopy at CoMD/NMR.

Arjun Koshal - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Arthur Palmer, III

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Director of Co
  • NMR Director
Arthur Palmer is the Director of CoMD/NMR, Director of NMR Spectroscopy at NYSBC, and the Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophyics at Columbia University. He also is the lead investigator for solution NMR spectroscopy at CoMD/NMR.

Aygul Ishemgulova

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Bruce Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Director for Computational Sciences at the Structural Biology Initiative
Bruce Johnson is the Senior Research Director for Computational Sciences at the Structural Biology Initiative of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. He is the lead investigator for software development at CoMD/NMR.

Bruno Scap

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader - Computing

Carolina Hernandez

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Cathleen Castello

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Cesar Mena

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer

Charlie Dubbeldam

Job Titles:
  • Administrator
  • Technician

Chase Budell

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Christina Zimanyi

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Christopher Lima

Job Titles:
  • Member and Chair, Structural Biology Program, SKI Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Crina Nimigean

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Physiology and Biophysics in Anesthesiology, Professor of Biochemistry

Daija Bobe

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Daniel Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Physical Plant Manager

Darnell Granberry

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer

David Cowburn

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Department of Systems & Computational Biology

David Hirsh - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

Debbie Trifilio - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance

Dhiresh Vyas

Job Titles:
  • IT Manager

Dianne Carpen

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Dieter Schneider

Job Titles:
  • NYX Beamline Director Emeritus

Edward Eng

Job Titles:
  • Scientist / NCCAT Manager

Elina Kopylov

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Eric Keeler

Job Titles:
  • Scientist
  • Senior Scientist
Eric Keeler is Senior Scientist at NYSBC. He conducts research in solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Tassadite Dahmane is Senior Scientist at NYSBC. She conducts research in NMR spectroscopy.

Eugene Chua

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Frederick Maxfield

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Secretary
  • Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry

Gabriella Angiulli

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Harold Varmus

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Senior Advisor to the Dean and Provost, Weill Cornell Medicine / Senior Associate Core Member, New York Genome Center
Dr. Varmus is the co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studies of the genetic basis of cancer. He has also been the recipient of many other awards and honors, among them the National Science Foundation's Vannevar Bush Award. His academic credentials include a B.A. from Amherst College, M.A. from Harvard University and M.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Varmus joined Weill Cornell Medical College in 2015 following his tenure as Director of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Jack Fishman

Job Titles:
  • Jack Fishman Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology, and Structural Biology

Jake Johnston

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Jayson Aviles

Job Titles:
  • Maintenance

Jeffrey Kieft

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • Member of the Leadership Team

Jessalyn Miller

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Jessica Bonsu

Job Titles:
  • Scientist
Jessica Bonsu is Computational Scientist at CUNY ASRC. She develops software applications for NMR processing and analysis.

Jiayi Shou

Job Titles:
  • Machine Learning Engineer

Jing Wang

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

John Pellman

Job Titles:
  • Systems Administrator

Jonah Cheung

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist

Joshua Mendez

Job Titles:
  • MEMC Manager

Kasahun Neselu

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Kevin Battaile

Job Titles:
  • NYX Beamline Director and Lead Scientist

Kevin Gardner

Job Titles:
  • Director, Structural Biology Initiative, Einstein Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, the City College of New York

Liliana Romero

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Payable Specialist

Mahira Aragon

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Michael Alink

Job Titles:
  • Microscope Manager

Michael Goger

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist
  • NMR Manager, Senior Scientist
Michael Goger is Senior Scientist and NMR Manager at NYSBC. He conducts research in both solution and solid state NMR spectroscopy.

Michael Rudolph

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist

Michael Skinner

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer

Ming-Ming Zhou

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Chair, Pharmacological Sciences, Co - Director Experimental Therapeutics Institute, Professor, Oncological Sciences

Mykhailo Kopylov

Job Titles:
  • Scientist / NCITU Manager

Nina Gray

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice Provost for Research Planning and Analysis

NYX Beamline

Job Titles:
  • NYX Beamline Director and Lead Scientist
  • NYX Beamline Director Emeritus

Past SAB

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board

Pilar Cossio

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist and Project Leader, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute

Rajendra K. Agrawal

Job Titles:
  • Director, Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center. Professor, Department of Medical Sciences, University at Albany

Richard Henderson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Henderson is the co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work related to cryo-electron microscopy. Dr. Henderson has been with the University of Cambridge, from which he received his Ph.D., since 1973. He received his B.S. from Edinburgh University. Dr. Henderson is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, among them the Distinguished Scientist Award and Fellow, Microscopy Society of America.

Richard Morales

Job Titles:
  • Maintenance

Robert Gheorghita

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Robert Wood Johnson Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Roberto Mercado

Job Titles:
  • System Administrator

Rudra Subramanian

Job Titles:
  • Beamline Scientist

Ruth Lehmann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Director of the Whitehead Institute
  • Professor of Biology Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Lehmann became director of the Whitehead Institute in 2020 after serving in leadership roles at NYU from 1996 to 2020, including as director of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology. She has received multiple professional awards and honors during her career. Dr. Lehmann received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and president of the American Society for Cell Biology.

Saeed McBean

Job Titles:
  • HVAC Technician

Seth Darst

Job Titles:
  • Jack Fishman Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology, and Structural Biology

Shibani Bhattacharya

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist
Shibani Bhattacharya is Senior Scientist at NYSBC. She conducts research in solution NMR spectroscopy.

Stephen Harrison

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Professor, Director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Harrison has spent the bulk of his career at Harvard University, from which he received both his B.A. and Ph.D. He has served on several Scientific Advisory and Editorial Boards. Professional societies of which he is a member include the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Crystallographic Association. He has received multiple professional awards and honors during his career.

Stephen Long

Job Titles:
  • Member & Professor, Structural Biology

Steven Almo

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Chair, Department of Biochemistry

Tassadite Dahmane

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist

Timothy P. O'Connor - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Treasurer
  • Executive Vice President, the Rockefeller University

Tony M. Liss

Job Titles:
  • Provost, the City College of New York

Tony Matos

Job Titles:
  • Maintenance

Tristan Bepler

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr. Ramakrishnan is the co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the atomic structure of the ribosome. Dr. Ramakrishnan has been with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge since 1999. He received his B.S. from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and Ph.D. from Ohio University. Dr. Ramakrishnan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and, from November 2015 until November 2020, was President of the Royal Society. He has received multiple professional awards and honors during his career

Veronica Murray

Job Titles:
  • Senior Grants & Contracts Manager

Viacheslav Serbynovskyi

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician

Vladimir Horowitz

Job Titles:
  • Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry

Yang Chen

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Zephan Melville

Job Titles:
  • Scientist