Sanford Simon, PHD

Rockefeller University – Gunter Blobel Professor, Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics

Dr. Simon’s lab studies individuals—single proteins, vesicles, viruses, or cancers – then uses, or invents, the tools or techniques that are needed to address the problem. His current work on childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancers runs the gamut from identifying oncogenic drivers and studying malignant transformation to designing clinical trials. Dr. Simon is currently exploring a single precisely defined cancer that affects children and young adults: fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, which affects the liver and is usually lethal.

Dr. Simon earned his Bachelors in neuroscience from Princeton University, followed by his Masters and PhD in physiology and biophysics from the New York University School of Medicine.