Department of Cell Biology

Dr. Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, Ph. D. - Biosketch

Julio 


Endowed Professor of Cell Biology
Founding Director of the Cancer Dormancy and Tumor Microenvironment Institute
Director of the Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center
Co-Leader Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis Program, AECC

Price Bldg., Room 220

Research Interest 
Biosketch 
 

   
APPOINTMENTS/EMPLOYMENT
 
1992-1995: Student Research Assistant
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1994-1995: Teaching Assistant
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1996-1998: Graduate Research Associate
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998-2003: Postdoctoral Fellow
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.
2003-2008: Assistant Professor.
Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, The University at Albany, State University of New York, USA. Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, USA.
2005-2008: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences,
The University at Albany, State University of New York, USA.
2005-2008: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Center for Cell Biology & Cancer Research, Albany Medical College, USA.
2008-2013: Associate Professor (with Tenure)
Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine and Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Oncological Sciences (secondary), Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
2008-date: Director
Head and Neck Cancer Basic Research. Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine and Department of Otolaryngology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
http://www.mssm.edu/research/programs/head-and-neck-cancer-basic-and-translational-research-program 
2009-date: Member Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
2010-date: Member The Dubin Breast Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
2013-2015: Director
Solid Tumor and Metastasis Research, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine and Department of Otolaryngology, Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
2013-date: Research Leader, Metastasis Research Center, Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA.
http://www.mountsinai.org/patient-care/service-areas/cancer/cancer-services/metastasis/meet-our-team 
2014-date: Professor (with Tenure)
Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine and Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Oncological Sciences (secondary), Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
http://www.mssm.edu/profiles/julio-a-aguirre-ghiso
http://www.mssm.edu/research/labs/laboratory-of-signaling-and-metastasis 
2016-2017: Associate Director for Basic Science Shared Resources, Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
2017-date: Program Co-Leader, Cancer Mechanisms Program, Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
2018-date: Member, Precision Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
2019-date: Founder, Scientific Advisory Board Member, HiberCell, LLC.
10/2020: Endowed Chair: Mount Sinai Professor in Cancer Biology
   
EDUCATION 
1989-1994: Licentiate (MSc.) in Biological Sciences.
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Primary Mentors: Elisa Bal de Kier Joffe, MD, PhD. and Slobodanka Klein, Ph.D.
1994-1997: Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Molecular Cell Biology – Cancer Biology)
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Primary Mentor: Elisa Bal de Kier Joffe, MD, PhD.
1998-2003: Postdoctoral Training – Charles H. Revson Fellow.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA.
Primary Mentor: Liliana Ossowski, Ph.D.
   
 HONORS/AWARDS 
1996 Best Basic Research Paper, Institute of Oncology "Angel Roffo", and University of Buenos Aires Argentina.
1998 “Florencio Fiorini Foundation Award”, Argentine League for the Fight Against Cancer (LALCEC), Argentina.
1999 Best Basic Research Paper, Institute of Oncology "Angel Roffo", University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2003 Award “Florencio Fiorini Foundation Award”, Argentine League for the Fight Against Cancer (LALCEC), Argentina.
2005 Promising Inventor Award, The Research Foundation, State University of New York.
2010 Chair of the Session: Cancer and Stem Cells. Annual NYSTEM meeting. New York City, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
2010 Chair Workshop on Non-Mammalian Models of Cancer. 101st AACR annual meeting, Washington DC.
2011 Chair Educational Session: Dormancy of Disseminated Tumor Cells and Metastatic Growth: Are Tumor Stem Cells the Culprit? 102nd AACR Meeting, Orlando FL.
2011 Elected Permanent Member, Tumor Microenvironment (TME) Study Section, NIH.
2012 Invited speaker at Major Symposium: Dormant and Stem Cells in Tumor Heterogeneity. Jeff Settleman, Chair. 103nd AACR annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
2012 Co-Chair, Plenary lecture session, 1st Advances in Circulating Tumour Cells Meeting, Athens, Greece.
2012 Speaker Herrenhausen Symposium on Metastasis, Nature Medicine, Kloster Seeon, Germany.
2012 Speaker, International Symposium of the Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund. Tokyo, Japan.
2012 Chair of the session Clinical Ramifications of Understanding Heterogeneity, at the International Symposium of the Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund. Tokyo, Japan
2013/5 Advisor for the National Breast Cancer Coalition Artemis Project on Breast Cancer.
2014 Speaker and Chair – ISREC Meeting on Metastatic Colonization, Crans Montana,
Switzerland.
2014 Co-Chair, Plenary lecture session, 2nd Advances in Circulating Tumour Cells Meeting, Crete, Greece
2015 Keynote Speaker – Porto Cancer and Stem Cells meeting, IPATIMUP, Porto, Portugal.
2015 Invited Speaker –FASEB Meeting on TGFFamily. Snowmass CO, USA.
2015 Invited Speaker – CNIO Meeting on Metastasis Biology, Madrid, Spain.
2015 Invited Speaker – AACR Tumor Metastasis Meeting, Austin, TX, USA.
2016 Speaker, Distinguished Lectures Series, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA.
2016 Speaker, Distinguished Lectures Series, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
2016 Ad Hoc Chair - Tumor Microenvironment (TME) Study Section, CSR, NIH.
2016 Elected, Board Member, Metastasis Research Society (Americas).
2016 Keynote Speaker - XXXI International Congress of the International Academy of
Pathology and 28th Congress of the European Society of Pathology, Cologne, Germany.
2016 Bioaccelerate Prize. NYC Partnership Fund.
2017 Distinguished Scientist Lecture, Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX.
2017 Mentor, IACM Workshop organized by Sage Bionetworks, FHCRC and NCI, Seattle, WA.
2017 Advisory Board to the Eli Lilly Oncology Program, New York.
2017 Reviewer for the AIRC – Italian Association for Cancer Research Program on Metastatic Disease.
2018 Co-Organizer, Co-Chair and Keynote speaker at the AACR 2018 Cancer Dormancy and Residual Disease Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
2018 Elected, President, Metastasis Research Society (2020-2024).
2018 Chair, Linear and Non-Linear Metastasis Workshop, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD, USA.
2018 Chair of the nominating committee for the TME Working Group chairperson, AACR.
2019 Keynote Speaker at the Cancer Dormancy Session, SUNRISE Cancer Stem Cell Network Conference, Nice, France.
2019 Keynote Speaker, Selection and adaptation during metastatic cancer progression FOR2127 meeting, University of Regensburg, Germany.
2019 Chair, Tumor Cell Heterogeneity Session, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Cancer Biology: Microenvironment and Metastasis., Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
2019 MRS Representative at the AACR Governance
2020 Member of the AACR Tumor Microenvironment Steering Committee
2020 Member of the AACR Annual Meeting Education Committee
2020 Endowed Chair: Mount Sinai Professor in Cancer Biology
   
 EDITORIAL BOARDS
2006 Guest Editor for Cell Cycle, issue “Spotlight on Cancer Dormancy”.
2012 Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Cancers (ERSC).
2013 Cancer Research, Breaking Advances Editor.
2014 International Journal of Stem Cell Research.
2016 Clinical & Experimental Metastasis.
2020 Cancer Cell, Advisory Board Member