Professor of Cell Biology & Medicine, New York University
Daniel Rifkin is currently Alan Poindexter Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1968) and did postdoctoral training in Cell Biology and Biochemistry at the Rockefeller University, where he was Assistant and Associate Professor before moving to NYUMC. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cell Biology and Matrix Biology. He has worked in the areas of proteases and cancer invasion, growth factor control of angiogenesis, and the biology of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-ß). Recently his lab has characterized the role to TGF-ß in fibrotic and connective tissue diseases such as scleroderma and Marfan syndrome.