Lydia Finley PhD

Lydia Finley is an Assistant Member in the Cell Biology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Finley received her BS summa cum laude from Yale University and completed her PhD in the laboratory of Dr. Marcia Haigis at Harvard Medical School. As a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Craig Thompson at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Finley identified metabolites that contribute to the regulation of embryonic stem cell self-renewal. Since opening her own laboratory, she has investigated the mechanisms that link metabolic pathways to cell fate decisions. Using both stem cells and cancer cells, her laboratory has discovered genetic and environmental factors that drive metabolic regulation of chromatin modifications and gene expression programs that control cell fate. Dr. Finley is a Searle Scholar and the recipient of the Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.