Ulrich G. Steidl MD, PhD

Dr. Ulrich Steidl is professor of cell biology and of medicine and the Diane and Arthur B. Belfer Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also associate Chair for translational research in oncology at Montefiore Health System. Dr. Steidl’s research focuses on identifying critical mechanisms that drive the development of deregulated stem cells known as leukemia stem cells. As part of his research on the stem cell origin of myeloid malignancies including myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), his laboratory has developed and refined unique experimental tools for functional and mechanistic studies including in transcriptional and epigenetic regulation and at the stem cell level, as well as novel approaches for their specific therapeutic targeting. Dr. Steidl has published his findings in prominent journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Immunology, Nature Chemical Biology, Science Translational Medicine, Cancer Cell, and others. Among his important contributions to the field are investigations and discoveries of cellular and molecular regulatory mechanisms in precancerous stem cells in MDS, AML, and myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN).