Carl Nathan
Carl Nathan graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and trained in internal medicine and oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, the National Cancer Institute and Yale. He joined the faculty at Rockefeller University for 10 years before moving to Weill Cornell Medicine in 1986 as the Stanton Griffis Distinguished Professor of Medicine. There he has served as founding director of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, first senior associate dean for research, acting dean of the Medical College, dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology (1998 to 2025). He currently chairs the international advisory board for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Institute for Global Infectious Disease Research at Rockefeller University and serves as associate scientific director of the Cancer Research Institute, chair of the Tres Cantos Open Lab Foundation and a director of the Rita Allen Foundation and the Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute. Nathan has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. He has received the Robert Koch Prize, the Sanofi-Institute Pasteur Senior Scientist Award and the National Academy of Medicine’s Hamburg Award for Advances in Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine.
