About
Dr. David Lyden is a pediatrician based in New York, New York, who practices at Weill Medical College of Cornell, Newyork Presbyterian Alexandra Cohen Hospital For Women And Newborns, New York Downtown Hospital, and Norman M Magid M D. He speaks English. Dr. Lyden studies the mechanisms by which cancer metastasizes throughout the body, particularly through the establishment of blood vessels that tumors need to grow and spread. As the Stavros S. Niarchos Chair, he runs a laboratory investigating the biology of medulloblastoma and high-grade gliomas, with a focus on how cells in the tumor environment foster tumor growth. In addition to his research, he teaches fellows, residents, medical students, graduate students, and MD/PhD students in the Tri-Institutional MD/PhD Program, which includes The Rockefeller University.
His work has been published in major scientific journals including Nature, Cell, and Science, and he is the lead editor of Cancer Metastasis: Biologic Basis and Therapeutics, the first textbook focused on research on metastasis and the treatment of metastatic disease.
