Our Team
Alumni
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
Rafael Sanz-Galvez, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shubhashree Shahi
Associate Researcher
William Basile
Kim Kilian
Visiting Student Researcher
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.