Cell Biology Program

The Philipp Niethammer Lab

Philipp Niethammer, PhD

Interdisciplinary approaches to wound healing, inflammation and regeneration.

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Featured News

Go Fish: Why MSK Researchers Use Zebrafish To Study a Cancer-Linked Inflammation Pathway

A study led by postdoctoral researcher Yanan Ma from the lab of cell biologist Philipp Niethammer shows why diversity also matters in model animal research.

Finding

Don't Scratch That Mole? Scientists Are Learning More about Inflammation and Cancer

It's not only what's inside your cells that determines your cancer risk. It's what surrounds them too.

Publications

Katikaneni A, Jelcic M, Gerlach GF, Ma Y, Overholtzer M, Niethammer P. Lipid peroxidation regulates long-range wound detection through 5-lipoxygenase in zebrafish. Nat Cell Biol. 2020 Sep;22(9):1049–1055. PMID: 32868902

Riegman M, Sagie L, Galed C, Levin T, Steinberg N, Dixon SJ, Wiesner U, Bradbury MS, Niethammer P, Zaritsky A, Overholtzer M. Ferroptosis occurs through an osmotic mechanism and propagates independently of cell rupture. Nat Cell Biol. 2020 Aug 31; PMID: 32868903

Jelcic M, Wang K, Hui KL, Cai X-C, Enyedi B, Luo M, Niethammer P. A Photo-clickable ATP-Mimetic Reveals Nucleotide Interactors in the Membrane Proteome. Cell Chem Biol. 2020 Aug 20;27(8):1073–1083.e12. PMID: 32521230

Stoddard M, Huang C, Enyedi B, Niethammer P. Live imaging of leukocyte recruitment in a zebrafish model of chemical liver injury. Sci Rep. 2019 Jan 10;9(1):28. PMCID: PMC6328554

Jelcic M, Enyedi B, Niethammer P. Quantitative imaging of endogenous and exogenous H2O2 gradients in live zebrafish larvae. Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1982:283–299. PMID: 31172479

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People

Philipp Niethammer, PhD

Cell biologist Philipp Niethammer investigates tissue damage responses with advanced imaging approaches in zebrafish.
PhD, European Molecular Biology Laboratories & Hamburg University, Germany

[email protected]: Email Address
212-639-5332: Office Phone

Members

Sriivatsan Govinda Rajan
Research Fellow

Hansranie Singh
Administrative Assistant

Lab Alumni

Michelle Bello Veramendi
Research Technician

Mark J. Jelcic
Scientist at Fate Therapeutics Inc, San Diego, CA

Anushka Katikaneni
PhD Candidate at Duke University

Balázs Enyedi, MD, PhD — Balázs Enyedi
Postdoctoral Fellow

William Gault, PhD — William Gault
Postdoctoral Fellow

Kadeem P. Ho Sang
Administrative Research Assistant

Michelina Stoddard
MD-PhD graduate student

Lab Affiliations

Achievements

Dorsett L. Spurgeon Distinguished Research Award (2009)
Louis Gerstner Young Investigator (2012)
American Asthma Foundation Scholar (2014)
Louise and Allston Boyer Young Investigator Award (2018)

Open Positions

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Lab Head Email
212-639-5332

Office Phone
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Disclosures

Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.

MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.

Philipp Niethammer discloses the following relationships and financial interests:

American Association for Anatomy
Professional Services and Activities (Uncompensated)
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professional Services and Activities (Uncompensated)
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
Professional Services and Activities (Uncompensated)

European Molecular Biology Organization
Professional Services and Activities (Uncompensated)
National University of Singapore
Professional Services and Activities (Uncompensated)
University of Virginia
Professional Services and Activities

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