Meet the Team

Our Researchers

Nathaniel Heintz, PhD

— Director

Nathaniel Heintz has employed technologies developed in his laboratory to investigate the genes, circuits, cells, macromolecular assemblies, and individual molecules that contribute to neuronal function and dysfunction…

Junyue Cao, PhD

— Fisher Center Foundation Associate Professor at The Rockefeller University

Junyue Cao, PhD, is the inaugural Fisher Center Foundation Associate Professor and the Director of the Laboratory of Single-Cell Genomics

Priya Rajasethupathy, MD, PhD

— The Jonathan M. Nelson Family Associate Professor and Director of the Fisher Memory Initiative at The Rockefeller University

Priya Rajasethupathy has directed the Fisher Center Targeted Therapies Initiative for Memory Loss in Alzheimer’s Disease.

Fraser Glickman, PhD

— Director of the Fisher Drug Discovery Resource Center and Research Associate Professor at The Rockefeller University

Fraser Glickman, PhD, is a scientist and research administrator with more than two decades of experience in translational drug discovery

Martin Sadowski, MD, PhD

— The Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Professor in Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s Disease at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Martin J. Sadowski, MD, PhD, DSci is a Tenured Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the Director of the Fisher Center Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Program at NYU.

Dr. Sunnie Kenowsky

— Co-Director, Zachary and Elizabeth M. Fisher Alzheimer Disease Education and Research program NYU School of Medicine

The niece of the late Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher, Dr. Kenowsky conducts research at the Fisher Alzheimer’s Disease and Education program at NYU school of Medicine with a goal to change the standard of care for AD patients.

Neuroscience Advisory Committee

Michael W. Young, PhD

— Advisory Member

Michael Young shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries about the cellular and molecular machinery of biological clocks, the internal mechanisms that control the timing of daily activities in living organisms…

Torsten N. Wiesel, MD

— Advisory Member

Neurobiologist Torsten Wiesel is co-director of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, where he served as president from 1992 to 1998…