Sankar Ghosh
Chairman and Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University
Prof. Sankar Ghosh is the Chairman and Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University. Prof. Ghosh is best known for his pioneering research on activation of cellular responses by nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells (NF-κB), a transcription factor that plays a critical role in regulating the expression of a large number of genes involved in the mammalian immune system.
Sankar Ghosh has won numerous accolades for his work and has been published extensively in several prominent peer-reviewed journals. Ghosh was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2023, to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022, and the National Academy of Sciences in 2021. In 2007, Prof. Ghosh was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his "distinguished contributions to the field of immunology, particularly for studies of the NF-kB signaling pathway."