About PI

Keisuke Ito, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

Dr. Keisuke Ito is a tenured Full Professor of Cell Biology, Medicine, and Oncology, and serves as Director of Scientific Resources at the Stem Cell Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), New York. He specializes in stem cell biology, hematology, and oncology. After earning his M.D. (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) from Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, he established his laboratory at Einstein in 2012. His research investigates stem cell self-renewal and differentiation, employing single-cell techniques, animal models, and omics assays to elucidate the key mechanisms governing hematopoietic stem cells and related disorders, including myelodysplastic syndromes, sickle cell disease, and myeloid leukemias.

• Professor, Department of Cell Biology

• Professor, Department of Medicine

• Professor, Department of Oncology (Medical Oncology)

• Director of Scientific Resources of the Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine

• Director, Einstein Single Cell Genomics and Computational Analyses Core

• co-Director, Networking and Executive committee member, New York Consortium for Interdisciplinary Training in Kidney, Urological and Hematological Research (NYC Train KUHR: https://nyckuhr.org/)

• Read more: https://einsteinmed.edu/faculty/13155/keisuke-ito