Manish Shah, M.D.
- Director, Gastrointestinal Oncology Program - Weill Cornell Medicine
- Chief, Solid Tumor Service - NewYork-Presbyterian
- Co-Director, Center for Advanced Digestive Disease - NewYork-Presbyterian
- B.E.S. Biomedical Engineering, John Hopkins University
- M.D. Harvard Medical School / MIT Health Sciences and Tech
Sandipto Sarkar
Research Associate
Sandipto Sarkar received his PhD. at the University of Kansas Medical Center to study the role of the CCN family of matricellular proteins in breast and pancreatic cancer progression. In 2018, Sandipto joined Dr. Manish Shah’s laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine as a post-doctoral fellow where he is studying the tumor microenvironment of gastrointestinal tumors, and mechanisms of immune evasion and immunotherapy resistance adopted by gastrointestinal cancers, particularly gastro-esophageal carcinoma.
Joseph Powell
Postdoctoral Researcher
Joseph (Joe) Powell received his Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University, where he primarily investigated computational techniques to leverage the data generated from remote patient monitoring devices for disease deep phenotyping analysis. Joe also worked in collaboration with other researchers to develop bioinformatic analysis pipelines designed to extract meaningful information from structurally diverse datasets. Joe joined Dr. Manish Shah’s laboratory as a postdoctoral associate in 2025. His current work focuses on multiomic analysis techniques to identify factors impacting mechanisms of immune evasion and immunotherapy resistance in gastrointestinal cancers.
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Cancer Biology, Precision Medicine, Computational Modeling
Quinn Burgner
Research Technician
Quinn Burgner received a bachelor’s degree in biology from The Ohio State University. After graduating, Quinn worked in a flow cytometry lab at the Wexner Medical Center before joining the Shah Lab at Weill Cornell in 2022. He is interested in pursuing a graduate degree in bioinformatics and furthering his knowledge in flow cytometry to continue his passion for research.