Letter from the Chair

Welcome to the nascent Department of Pathology website, which will be undergoing a lot of changes in the coming months— just like the Department itself. For those of you who might be interested, here is a mercifully brief account of how I came to be chairman and my vision for the department.

To achieve progress rather than the mere appearance of change, we must shape our future through an explicit articulation of mission and vision. I have devoted a great deal of time and thought to what these should be, given both our own distinct history and the opportunities before us; over the coming months, I will be engaging members of the department in an ongoing process of reflection and refinement. What I say here, then, is just a beginning, but one that I hope will set our course for the coming years.

Faculty recruitment
One of my first and most important goals is to recruit researchers and clinicians who are or will be preeminent in their fields. But neither prominence nor the potential for it will be the sole criterion we use to evaluate candidates.

We seek new faculty who are animated by our vision of New York University as a common enterprise university. Scientists with the intellectual vigor to shape their fields, the aspiration to train students who can surpass them, the plasticity of mind to traverse disciplines, and an appreciation for the unparalleled resources of NYU and New York City.

To create a fertile environment for such robust souls and focus our energies, we have organized the department around three main research themes in which we already have significant strengths: Molecular Oncology, Immunology, and Experimental Pathology. We are now actively recruiting to the first two of these research divisions. Please see our advertisement for faculty openings.

I hope that this site will stimulate your interest in New York University School of Medicine. I believe we have something unique to offer; if our vision inspires you, please send us your cv.

*The term “common enterprise university” refers to a community built around and for the creation and dissemination of knowledge, in contradistinction to a research model in which individual investigators each tend to their own shop, with little awareness of or regard for the larger community of scholars (except, in some cases, to compete with them).