Gordon Fishell, Ph.D.

Gordon J. Fishell, Ph.D., is associate director of the NYU Neuroscience Institute, Julius Raines Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, and director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and Physiology at New York University School of Medicine (NYU). Fishell is a long-standing member of the NYU School of Medicine community, having joined the developmental genetics program in the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine in 1994. In 2006, he launched the Smilow Neuroscience Program, and in 2011 he became associate director of the then-newly-formed NYU Neuroscience Institute.