Alex Gitlin, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Bio:
Alex Gitlin, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Immunology Program of the Sloan Kettering Institute at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The Gitlin lab investigates molecular and cellular mechanisms of inflammatory cell signaling, guided by a group of monogenic immune disorders that lie at the intersection of cell death and signaling. Prior to starting his lab at Sloan Kettering, Alex was a Visiting Scientist at Genentech and an Instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he completed his residency in clinical pathology. Alex received his MD from Weill Cornell and PhD from Rockefeller University as part of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program. His work has been recognized with the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, the 2022 NIH DP5 Director’s Early Independence Award, and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund – Career Award for Medical Scientists.
“N4BP1 coordinates IKK family crosstalk to limit inflammation”