Jose Silva’s Biography

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APPOINTMENTS

2008 – 2014          Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology/Institute for Cancer Genetics, HICCC, Columbia University

2014 – present      Adjunct Professor, Department of Pathology/Institute for Cancer Genetics, HICCC, Columbia University

2014 – present      Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology & Oncological Sciences/TCI, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

EDUCATION

1990 – 1995          BS, Faculty of Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

1995 – 2000          PhD, Department of Oncology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

2001 – 2007          Postdoctoral Fellow, Genetics & Cancer Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

2007 – 2008          Senior Fellow, Genetics & Cancer Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

HONORS/AWARDS

NIH/NCI K99/R00 CA127772 Award (2007)

Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Research Award (2015)

PATENTS

HDAC6-score as a biomarker predicting the response to HDAC6 inhibitors (Tech ID #150201 – in preparation by Mount Sinai Innovation Partners)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2010 – present      Member of the New York Academy of Science.

2008 – present      Member of  American Association for Cancer Research.