Carlos Carmona-Fontaine
Principal Investigator
I am an Associate Professor of Biology and member of the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology at NYU. I did my Ph.D. on Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London, UK after studying Biology in Chile. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, I was an independent research fellow at the Computational and Systems Biology Program at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
My main interest is to understand how cells are able to organize themselves to form multicellular structures and to coordinate in collective processes. Multicellular organization has critical consequences in physiological events such embryonic development but it is also critical in cancer and other diseases. Our work suggests that a large part of this organization emerges from social and ecological interactions between cells. My current research focuses on how metabolites -nutrients and waste products of cellular activity- mediates these interactions during tumor progression, collective cell migration and stem cell differentiation.
Contact information
Associate Professor
Center for Genomics & Systems Biology
Department of Biology
New York University
100 Washington Square East
750 Brown Building
New York, NY 10003
email: carlos.carmona-fontaine@nyu.edu
Career
Education
- 2014 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories (CSHL). Long Island, NY, USA. Mouse Development, Stem Cells and Cancer.
- 2009 Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA. Embryology.
- 2006-2010 University College London (UCL). London, UK. PhD, Cell & Developmental Biology.
- 2001-2005 Pontificia Universidad Católica (PUC). Santiago, Chile. B.Sc. Biology.
Employment
- January 2017-current. Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, New York University, NYC, USA.
- 2012-2016. CCSB Independent Fellow, Computational Biology department, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, NYC, USA. Cancer Systems Biology.
- 2011. Postdoctoral training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). NYC, USA. Cancer Systems Biology, mentor: Dr. Joao Xavier.
Awards and Honors
- 2015-2017 K99 NIH Pathway to Independence Award.
- 2012-2015 CCSB Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship. Computational Biology Program, MSKCC.
- 2011 Beddington Medal Recipient from the BSDB.
- 2011 Outstanding alumni award (PUC).
- 2009 Bogue Research Fellowship.
- 2006-2009 Overseas Research Scholarship at UCL.
- 2006-2009 Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship.
- 2005 Academic Excellence at PUC (summa cum laude).