Our Team

Richard Drexler, MD, PhD

Richard joined the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2026 as Principal Investigator of the laboratory. He is Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and a member of the Friedman Brain Institute and the Brain-Body Research Institute.

Assistant Professor

Kim Kilian

Kim is a medical student from Hamburg, Germany, currently conducting research in the Drexler Laboratory as a Visiting Student Researcher. Prior to his research stay, he worked in a lab for pediatric neuro-oncology investigating local brain infiltration in medulloblastoma. He is supported by a Boehringer Ingelheim MD Fellowship.

Visiting Student Researcher

William Basile

Visiting Student Researcher

William is an undergraduate Neuroscience student at Tulane University and is currently a Visiting Student Researcher in the Drexler Laboratory.