Niroshana Anandasabapathy, MD, PhD

Niroshana Anandasabapathy, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology at Weill Cornell Medical College, Vice-Chair of Research in Dermatology, and is actively involved in Immuno-oncology at the Meyer Cancer Center. A practicing physician- scientist with a focus in melanoma, her translational and basic science laboratory researches immune barrier homeostasis and the influence on tumor immune surveillance in both mice and humans. The Anandasabapathy lab seeks to understand how tissue immune homeostasis is conditioned, maintained and co-opted by tumors, leading to tumor immune escape. Dr. Anandasabapathy’s group studies DC, including T cell cross-talk in barrier sites and in tumors. They also study the role of DC in protein vaccine immunity, smallpox immunization and TRM regulation, and seek to understand how the hierarchy of DC programs in tissues contributes to their behavior.

Dr. Anandasabapathy received formal training in cancer biology and T cell immunology during her MD PhD at Stanford University, research coupled with a Dermatology residency at NYU, and received a masters in clinical investigation conducting clinical trials and studying DC biology at the Rockefeller University with the late Ralph Steinman (Nobel Prize 2011), before starting her own lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 2013. She relocated her lab to Weill Cornell Medicine in NYC in 2018, where she has active roles in Dermatology, the Meyer Cancer Center and precision human immunology.