25 faculty and 29 courses in Cellular Biology at Yale University.
- Hugh Taylor, Anita O'Keeffe Young Professor (secondary) h-index 107
Es on uterine development, endometriosis, endocrine disruption, and on stem cells. He is a recipient of ten National Institutes of Health research grants and directs The Yale Center for Reproductive Biology. Dr. Taylor has published more th
Notable: “Fertility Preservation in Patients With Cancer: ASCO Clinical Practice Guideline Update” (2018) · 1,472 citations
- Ronald Breaker, Sterling Professor h-index 106
Notable: “A DNA enzyme that cleaves RNA” (1994) · 1,460 citations
- Craig Crews, John C. Malone Professor h-index 98
Also has applications for the development of new drugs and therapeutic strategies. Honors and Awards The IUPAC-Richter Prize (2024) Emanuel Merck Lectureship The Kimberly Prize (2024) The Gabbay Prize (2023) The inaugural Bristol Myers Squi
Notable: “PROTAC targeted protein degraders: the past is prologue” (2022) · 3,059 citations
- Mark Hochstrasser, Eugene Higgins Professor (secondary) h-index 77
Has been on endosymbiotic bacteria that manipulate their eukaryotic hosts by secreting enzymes, including ubiquitin-specific proteases, into the host cell cytoplasm. Wolbachia bacteria alter host processes in ways that increase bacterial in
Notable: “UBIQUITIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN DEGRADATION” (1996) · 1,693 citations
- Jon Morrow, Raymond Yesner Professor (secondary) h-index 62
Es on understanding the structure and function of the spectrin-ankyrin-actin cytoskeleton and the mechanisms by which it mediates membrane receptor and adhesion-complex organization; signal transduction; and vesicle trafficking from the ER
Notable: “Adhesion between epithelial cells and T lymphocytes mediated by E-cadherin and the αEβ7 integrin” (1994) · 1,178 citations
- John Carlson, Eugene Higgins Professor h-index 60
Notable: “Toward an Architecture for Never-Ending Language Learning” (2010) · 1,991 citations
- Vivian Irish, Daniel C. Eaton Professor h-index 53
Notable: “Function of the apetala-1 gene during Arabidopsis floral development.” (1990) · 600 citations
- Lynn Cooley, C. N. H. Long Professor (secondary) h-index 51
Actin Cytoskeleton; Biology; Cell Biology; Drosophila; Genetics; Molecular Biology; Oogenesis ORCID Lab Whisk Cup Streamline Icon: Cooley Lab View Lab Website Research at a Glance Yale Co-Authors
Notable: “Filamins as integrators of cell mechanics and signalling” (2001) · 1,010 citations
- Stephen Dellaporta, Professor h-index 44
Notable: “A plant DNA minipreparation: Version II” (1983) · 7,590 citations
- Valerie Horsley, Professor h-index 43
Notable: “Fibroblasts: Origins, definitions, and functions in health and disease” (2021) · 1,104 citations
- Thierry Emonet, Lewis B. Cullman Professor h-index 41
Notable: “Simulations of magneto-convection in the solar photosphere” (2004) · 836 citations
- Damon Clark, Professor h-index 38
Notable: “Myofibroblast proliferation and heterogeneity are supported by macrophages during skin repair” (2018) · 515 citations
- Scott Holley, Chair and Professor h-index 38
Es on understanding the intertwining roles of cell signaling, cell-cell adhesion and cell-extracellular matrix adhesion in embryonic body elongation, segmentation and neural tube morphogenesis. This research seeks to identify the molecular
Notable: “A conserved system for dorsal-ventral patterning in insects and vertebrates involving sog and chordin” (1995) · 438 citations
- Paula Kavathas, Professor (secondary) h-index 37
Immunotherapy ORCID X Research at a Glance Yale Co-Authors Frequent collaborators of Paula Kavathas's published research. Shana Leopold, PhD View Full Profile View Common Publication Publications 2024 Longitudinal pro
Notable: “Impaired HLA Class I Antigen Processing and Presentation as a Mechanism of Acquired Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Lung Cancer” (2017) · 756 citations
- Megan King, Professor (secondary) h-index 29
Cell Biology; Cell Nucleus; Chromatin; DNA Repair; Genome; Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome; Mechanotransduction, Cellular; Nuclear Envelope ORCID Lab Whisk Cup Streamline Icon: LusK
Notable: “Perinuclear Arp2/3-driven actin polymerization enables nuclear deformation to facilitate cell migration through complex environments” (2016) · 383 citations
- Joshua Gendron, Associate Professor h-index 25
Notable: “Nuclear-Localized BZR1 Mediates Brassinosteroid-Induced Growth and Feedback Suppression of Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis” (2002) · 1,151 citations
- Kathryn Miller-Jensen, Professor (secondary) h-index 22
Notable: “Myofibroblast proliferation and heterogeneity are supported by macrophages during skin repair” (2018) · 515 citations
- Shirin Bahmanyar, Associate Professor h-index 20
Notable: “β-Catenin is a Nek2 substrate involved in centrosome separation” (2007) · 222 citations
- David Breslow, Associate Professor h-index 15
Understanding how the cilium serves as an organizing center for select signaling pathways (e.g. Hedgehog signaling), how cilia are dynamically assembled and disassembled in response to physiologic cues, and how altered ciliary funct
Notable: “Single-cell proteomic analysis of S. cerevisiae reveals the architecture of biological noise” (2006) · 1,567 citations
- Nadya Dimitrova, Associate Professor h-index 15
Notable: “53BP1 promotes non-homologous end joining of telomeres by increasing chromatin mobility” (2008) · 572 citations
- Hattie Chung, Assistant Professor (secondary) h-index 14
Notable: “Inexpensive Multiplexed Library Preparation for Megabase-Sized Genomes” (2015) · 799 citations
- Stavroula Hatzios, Associate Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Ferroptosis: A Regulated Cell Death Nexus Linking Metabolism, Redox Biology, and Disease” (2017) · 7,481 citations
- Alex Cantó-Pastor, Assistant Professor h-index 12
Es on how plants let some beneficial soil microbes into their roots while keeping pathogens at bay. His lab combines computational and molecular approaches to identify key genes in plant-microbe interactions, and manipulate these genes to e
Notable: “Enhanced resistance to bacterial and oomycete pathogens by short tandem target mimic RNAs in tomato” (2019) · 145 citations
- Akiko Iwasaki, Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor (secondary)
- Gregory Craven, Assistant Professor
Ed on fragment-based drug discovery and cysteine targeting. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco with Professor Jack Taunton, where he developed lysine-targeted covalent inhibitors and chemo
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.