Agnel Sfeir

Dr. Agnel Sfeir is the Paine Webber Chair in Cancer Genetics at Sloan Kettering Institute and a full member of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). She is also a Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Her research focuses on how mammalian cells maintain genome stability.

Her lab made important contributions to the understanding of DNA double-strand break repair, telomere maintenance, and mitochondrial DNA replication and repair. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including the NIH director’s new innovator award, Pew-Stewart scholarship for cancer research, Damon Runyon-Rachleff innovator award, Mathers foundation, V-Foundation scholar grant, Pershing Square-Sohn cancer research alliance prize, and an innovator award from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Dr. Agnel Sfeir holds a B.S and M.Sc. in Biology from the American University of Beirut and a PhD in Cell Biology from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She received her post-doctoral training at the Rockefeller University in the lab of Prof Titia de Lange. Prior to joining MSKCC in 2021, Dr. Sfeir was the Skirball Associate Professor of Genetics in the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at NYU school of medicine.